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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 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).
In 2018 the city released plans to phase out Rikers Island over ten years [26] and replace it with borough-based jails. [27] The Bain Center was included in the plan to close Rikers Island, [9] which the New York City Council voted to approve in October 2019. [28] [29] Under the bill, both facilities would have to close by 2026. [9]
Rikers Island is the main correctional facility. Horizon Juvenile Center serves as the juvenile facility. The final juvenile inmates on Rikers Island were moved to Horizon in 2018. [14] The move was prompted by a law passed by New York state in 2017 requiring that juvenile inmates under 18 be housed separately from adults. [15]
A federal judge ruled that New York City was in violation of 18 different provisions of a court-enforced plan to clean up the infamous Rikers Island jail complex.
Inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island were kept locked in their cells for nearly half an hour while a fire spread through one of the nation’s largest and most notorious jail complexes this ...
Of the more than 2,500 lawsuits filed under a special New York law, nearly 20% allege sexual violence against current or former prisoners at the infamous Rikers Island facilities.
This is a list of jail facilities in New York City. It includes federal prisons , county jails, and city jails run by the New York City Department of Corrections . [ 1 ]
City Councilman Robert Holden wants federal immigration agents at the massive jail complex -- and questioned the mayor's recent waffling on sanctuary city status.