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    on Rikers Island. Rikers Island was a prominent setting for many scenes of the long-running crime drama Law & Order and its spin-offs. In series two...
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  • Riker is an American crime drama television series that aired from March 14 until April 11, 1981. A cop is forced to quit after a scandal and takes a job...
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  • drama television series based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Stephen King, adapted for television by Richard Price. It was ordered to series on...
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  • City Michael Kenneth Williams as Freddy Knight, an influential prisoner at Rikers Island Bill Camp as Detective Sergeant Dennis Box, the lead detective on...
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  • Prodigal Son is an American procedural drama television series created by Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver for the Fox Broadcasting Company that premiered...
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    Rumer Willis (category Dancing with the Stars (American TV series) winners)
    portrayed Gia Mannetti on The CW teen drama series 90210 (2009–2010) and Tory Ash on the FOX musical drama series Empire (2017–2018). Willis won season...
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    television, working on series and telefilms for a number of networks. Her cinematography on the 2005 television documentary Rikers High, about high school...
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    Judge 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...
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    Billy Campbell (category Best Actor in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners)
    1986–88 NBC series Crime Story. Campbell was the first choice of the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation to play the role of William Riker, but lost...
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  • decided to visit Rand directly at Rikers Island. On the day they were going to Rikers, they received the reply. After a series of letter exchanges, Rand agreed...
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    Life is an American legal drama television series created by Hank Steinberg that premiered on ABC on February 11, 2020. The series is inspired by the true...
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    who is imprisoned at Rikers Island and plots revenge against Fisk for his betrayal. He had his men sneak Matt Murdock out of Rikers Island amidst the chaos...
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    William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films and series. He has also hosted the anthology series Beyond Belief:...
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  • a serialized drama created for CBS All Access; it premiered on January 23, 2020. Set about 30 years after The Next Generation, the series sees Patrick...
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    First Wave is a Canadian science fiction drama television series, filmed in Vancouver, that aired from 1998 to 2001 on the Space Channel in Canada. The...
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    Star Trek: The Next Generation (category 1980s American drama television series)
    his original series. The Next Generation featured a new crew: Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Jonathan Frakes as William Riker, Brent Spiner...
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    Claire Danes (category Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Screen Actors Guild Award winners)
    starring in the 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and receiving a nomination...
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  • former command crew of the USS Enterprise (Geordi La Forge, Worf, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, and Data) while facing a mysterious enemy...
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  • a tough sell for studios before Netflix ordered the series. The show was one of a number of dramas commissioned in short order by Netflix, which had committed...
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    John Leguizamo (category Drama Desk Award winners)
    spread this message to the world." In 2022, he performed Ghetto Klown "at Rikers Island Correctional Facility for an audience of justice-involved young men...
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    Marina Sirtis (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    in 1990 to film a drama special titled One Last Chance for the BBC. In 1992, she appeared in an episode of the short-lived series The Fifth Corner and...
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    documentary.org. May 15, 2014. "RIKERS – A Documentary Film". RIKERS. "Watch RIKERS Documentary". billmoyers.com. "RIKERS". docnyc.net. "Ocean Warriors...
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  • involved with the case of Kalief Browder, who had spent over three years in Rikers Island awaiting trial. On May 29, 2013, on his 31st court appearance, she...
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  • roles from the 1996 series, but in modified version. In this version, their characters are evil demons instead of good witches. Riker Lynch as Trash (part...
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  • detective television series that ran on NBC between January 3, 1984 and April 22, 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray. The series was created by...
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    turned down a marriage proposal from Shakur while he was incarcerated at Rikers Island in 1995. Speaking about her, Shakur stated: "Jada is my heart. She...
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  • Haffley in the NBC political drama The West Wing (2003–2005). He also appeared as Rex Van de Kamp in the ABC comedy-drama series, Desperate Housewives. He...
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    contributor, The New Yorker, "for his visually-driven story set inside Rikers Island jail using bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners...
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  • vengeance on the Cains themselves. An American TV series that combines elements of police procedural and legal drama, Law & Order has aired for 19 seasons since...
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    cut for pacing purposes. In 2018, she appeared in the Netflix horror drama series The Haunting of Hill House. In 2020, she played her first leading role...
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