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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]
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.
“Mother’s Day means everything to me,” said Rikers inmate Nadine Leach, 43, as she watched her three-year-old granddaughter, Queen, excitedly explore the sound machines, coloring books and toys.
Edgecombe Residential Treatment Facility New York: Minimum (co-ed) 200 Elmira Correctional Facility: Chemung: Maximum 1876 1,350 Fishkill Correctional Facility: Dutchess: Medium 1977 1,800 Five Points Correctional Facility: Seneca: Maximum 2000 1,550 Franklin Correctional Facility: Franklin: Medium 1986 1,730 Gouverneur Correctional Facility ...
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 ...
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 ]