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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. [4] [5] Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under 100 acres (40 ha) in size, but has since grown to more than 400 acres (160 ha).
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...
Oct 20, 2019 · Rikers Island: Tales from inside New York's notorious jail. 20 October 2019. By Rosie Blunt, BBC News. Getty Images. The campaign to shut down Rikers, famous for cruelty and abuse, has been...
Sep 15, 2021 · New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex has long had a reputation for brutal conditions, but in recent months the situation inside has spun out of control. Ten people incarcerated at...
Oct 18, 2019 · Rikers Island, one of the country’s most notorious correctional facilities, is closing. The City Council approved plans on Thursday to close Rikers, a jail complex with nearly 10,000...
Mar 6, 2024 · It’s looking increasingly unlikely that New York City officials will shutter Rikers Island by the legally mandated August 2027 deadline. New York City Budget Director Jacques Jiha’s statement at a recent preliminary budget hearing that the four smaller borough-based jails slated to replace the notorious jails complex won’t be completed in time.
Mar 22, 2019 · Rikers Island once called—“The City’s Island of the Damned” —was born in tragedy and scandal. Severe overcrowding and a spate of riots and legal battles across the jail’s first 45 years of existence led the city to try to get rid it and replace it with eight smaller detention centers across the boroughs in the late 1970s ...
Mar 26, 2024 · New York is leading a historic decarceration plan to close Rikers Island and replace it with a smaller network of safer modern jails.
About Rikers Island & the Borough-Based Jail System. In October 2019, the former New York City Council passed, and former Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law, land use plans to create four modern jail facilities and permanently close the jails on Rikers Island.
Sep 24, 2021 · During the past few months, Rikers Island has been the site of sequential atrocities so stark that this week four members of New York’s congressional delegation called for its immediate closure.
