Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) prison island in the East River in the Bronx that contains New York City's largest jail. Named after Abraham...

Rikers Island Bridge (officially named Francis R. Buono Memorial Bridge) is a girder bridge that connects Rikers Island in the borough of the Bronx with...

be broken down. "Rikers Island" was later sampled on "40 Island" by Noreaga featuring Kool G Rap and Mussolini A-side "Rikers Island" (5:37) B-side "Rhyme...

were conducted by inmates from the nearby Rikers Island jail until 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hart Island Project, a public charity founded by visual...

Diane Kiesel. Until the end of the trial, Sorokin was incarcerated at Rikers Island, where she had 13 infractions for misbehavior such as fighting and disobeying...

rate in the New York City jail system is as high as 65%. The jail at Rikers Island, in New York, is making efforts to reduce this statistic by teaching...

teenager Kalief Browder during his extended time in pretrial detention at Rikers Island. This included video recordings of guards beating Browder, withholding...

Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City's East River between the mainland Bronx and Rikers Island. North Brother Island was once...

African American youth from The Bronx, New York, who was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, without trial, between 2010 and 2013 for allegedly stealing...

could have led to a life sentence. Weinstein was remanded to jail at Rikers Island in New York City pending his sentencing hearing on March 11, when he...

to Close Rikers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 12, 2019. "New York city council votes to close infamous Rikers Island jails"....

The Anna M. Kross Center (AMKC), also known as the C-95 was a jail on Rikers Island used to hold male inmates for the New York City Department of Corrections...

legal system and the need for abolition. She has focused on issues at Rikers Island, which she describes as a pretrial detention center plagued by systemic...

founding the United Blood Nation gang while serving a prison sentence at Rikers Island, New York, in 1993. Portee began his criminal career as a robber at...

Adolescent Inmates on Rikers Island". 17 December 2014. "Ponte says solitary confinement of young inmates now officially banned at Rikers". Politico. Weiser...

crosses the Rikers Island Bridge onto the island itself, passing through both security checkpoints, and terminating at the Rikers Island visitors center...

York City's imprisoned population, housing the majority of them on Rikers Island. It employs 7,060 uniformed officers and 1,727 civilian staff, has 543...

advised New York City's Rikers Island jail complex and tested an anti-violence strategy named "Restart" which occurred in Rikers housing units. Jail administrators...

Michael Kenneth Williams as Freddy Knight, an influential prisoner at Rikers Island Bill Camp as Detective Sergeant Dennis Box, the lead detective on Nasir's...

(long-term holding facility run by the state). The Rikers Island Bridge opened in 1966. "McNeil Island". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). (Los Angeles...

Coast of the United States. The gang was established in 1993 at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City. The gang initially sold various narcotics...

because Gristina was unable to meet this amount, she was detained at Rikers Island jail for four months. The Appellate Division lowered Gristina's bail...

2, 2014 after serving 58 days at Rikers. After her release, McMillan advocated for the rights of prisoners at Rikers. In an opinion piece for The New...

attempted murder and sent to Rikers Island prison. After eight months of assessment by the psychiatric team at Rikers Island, he was expecting to be released...

converting the island to a park in 1924, and the city began planning to move Welfare Island's inmates to a new jail complex on Rikers Island further north...

York Times titled "Shut Down Rikers Island" (July 19, 2015). In the piece, Barsky argued that "the only way to transform Rikers is to destroy it; it needs...

of Haitian and Panamanian descent. At age 18, he was imprisoned on Rikers Island, where he formed a close bond with his cellmate, who was later discovered...

Carter wrote a memoir of his experience in Rikers Island called Gone Til' November: A Journal of Rikers Island that was released October 11, 2016. In December...

turned himself in to the NYPD on December 23, 2021. He was sent to Rikers Island and was held without bond. On February 23, 2023, Perez and 7 others...

most famous songs is "Rikers Island", which was later turned into a dancehall version by Nardo Ranks titled “Me No Like Rikers Island" (featured on the 1991...