Rikers Island - Wikipedia
Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) [1] [2] prison island in the East River in the Bronx [3] that contains New York City's largest jail. [4] [5] Named after Abraham Rycken, who took …
Rikers Island | New York, Map, History, & Facts | Britannica
Jan 29, 2025 · Rikers Island, island in the East River near the entrance of Bowery Bay, north of La Guardia Airport, New York, New York, U.S. Politically part of the borough of the Bronx (north), …
What life is really like in Rikers Island - New York Post
Jan 19, 2025 · It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in …
Rikers Island: Tales from inside New York's notorious jail - BBC
Oct 20, 2019 · This week New York City Council voted to close Rikers Island jail, which has housed high-profile inmates including Tupac Shakur, Sid Vicious, and Mark David Chapman - …
New York's infamous Rikers Island jail is to close - BBC
Oct 18, 2019 · Rikers Island, a New York jail notorious for the grim stories of cruelty and abuse that emerged from behind its walls, and for its infamous inmates - among them Tupac...
A timeline on the closure of Rikers Island - City & State New York
Jan 28, 2025 · The city officially delayed the plan to close Rikers Island and build new jails until 2027. November 2020. New York City Department of Correction officials announced the city …
Inside the Kitchen of New York City’s Rikers Island - The New …
Feb 4, 2025 · Mr. Reina, 56, is a cook on Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious 415-acre jail complex in Queens. He commutes two hours from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to prepare meals for …
A century of violence, chaos and death: Inside the troubled history …
Jan 10, 2025 · For nearly 100 years, New York City has been housing its detainees in jail cells on Rikers Island. And for all of that time, the jail complex has been known almost exclusively as a …
A People’s History of Rikers Island
The history of Rikers Island is a century-long narrative of devastation, torture, and inhumanity. Its impact reaches much farther than the East River. It is, in every way, a history of New York …
Under New York City law, the Rikers Island jails must be closed entirely by August 31, 2027. Rikers has long been an incubator of violence, crime, and suffering.