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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 ]
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]
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).
Rikers Island consists mainly of men’s jail facilities that house around 6,000 people. Child-friendly exhibits will be added to those facilities over the next year, the museum said in a statement.
Inside a shuttered Rikers Island jail, city investigators in November 2020 discovered a secret lounge with leather couches and a giant TV screen, caches of Correction Department equipment ...
At least 12 people have died this year inside of New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex, raising concerns about the safety and oversight of the inmates.
Adirondack Correctional Facility: Essex: Medium 1904 566 Albion Correctional Facility: Orleans: Medium (female) 1894 1,274 Altona Correctional Facility: Clinton: Medium 1983 512 Attica Correctional Facility: Wyoming: Maximum 1931 2,253 Auburn Correctional Facility: Cayuga: Maximum 1818 1,821 Bare Hill Correctional Facility: Franklin: Medium ...
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 ...