Rikers Island
Location	New York City, USA
Nearest city	New York City
Coordinates	40°47′28″N 73°52′58″W / 40.79111, -73.88278
Area	413.17 acres (1.672 km²)
Established	1932
Governing body	New York City Department of Correction

Rikers Island is the name of the world's largest penal colony^{[citation needed]}. It is the largest of New York City's jail facilities^[1], as well as the name of the 413.17-acre (1.672 km²) island on which it sits, in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx, adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport. The island itself is part of the borough of the Bronx, though it is included as part of Queens Community Board 1 and has a Queens ZIP code.^[2] The jail complex, operated by the New York City Department of Correction, has a budget of $860 million a year, a staff of 10,000 officers and 1,500 civilians to control a yearly inmate population of up to 130,000. The official permanent population of the island, as reported by the United States Census Bureau, was 12,780 as of the 2000 census. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2270x661, 149 KB)THIS IS A PICTURE OF RIKERS ISLAND File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the unit of measurement. ... Infobox Correction Department The New York City Department of Correction is responsible for over 13,000 of New York Citys inmates, housing the majority of them on Rikers Island. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A county jail is a place of detention for people awaiting trial, or for those who have been convicted of a misdemeanor and are serving a sentence of less than one year. ... New York City waterways: 1. ... This article is about the borough of New York City. ... For other uses, see Bronx (disambiguation). ... LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) (pronounced La-Gwardia) is an airport serving New York City, New York, United States, located on the waterfront of Flushing Bay, and borders the neighborhoods of Astoria, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst in the borough of Queens. ... The Queens Community Board 1 is a local governement unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Astoria, Old Astoria, Long Island City, Queensbridge, Ditmars, Ravenswood, Steinway, Garden Bay, and Woodside, in the borough of Queens. ... Infobox Correction Department The New York City Department of Correction is responsible for over 13,000 of New York Citys inmates, housing the majority of them on Rikers Island. ... The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... 2000 US Census logo The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ...

The island is named after Abraham Rycken,^[3], a Dutch settler who moved to Long Island in 1638 and whose descendants owned Rikers Island until 1884, when it was sold to the city for $180,000 and has been used as a jail ever since.^[4] This article is about the island in New York State. ...

Rikers Island jail

The facility generally holds about 15,000 inmates at a time.^[5] The daytime population (including staff) can be 20,000 or more.^{[citation needed]}

The facility, which consists of ten jails, holds local offenders who are awaiting trial and cannot afford or cannot obtain bail, those serving sentences of one year or less, and those temporarily placed there pending transfer to another facility which does not have space.

The only access to the facility is from Queens, over the unmarked 4,200-foot (1.28 km) three-lane Francis Buono Bridge, dedicated on November 22, 1966, by Mayor John Lindsay.^[6] Before the bridge was constructed, the only access to the island was by ferry. Transportation is also provided by the Q100 Limited stop bus service, also serving the Riker's Island Parking Lot, the 21st Street-Queensbridge F subway station, and the Queensboro Plaza 7 <7> N W subway station at Queensboro Plaza, providing around-the-clock service. There are also privately-operated shuttles that connect the parking lot at the south end to the island. Bus service within the island for visitors visiting inmates is provided by the New York City Department of Correction. This article is about the borough of New York City. ... Rikers Island Bridge (officially named Francis R. Buono Memorial Bridge) connects Rikers Island (officially part of the borough of the Bronx) to the Steinway neighborhood of Queens in New York City. ... is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the American politician. ... The ferryboat Dongan Hills, filled with commuters, about to dock at a New York City pier, circa 1945. ... The MTA Bus Company (MTA Bus for short), a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is a public benefit corporation created to operate those bus routes formerly operated by private companies in the New York City area. ... 21st Street–Queensbridge is a station on the IND 63rd Street Line of the New York City Subway. ... 179th Street to Coney Island The F Sixth Avenue Local is a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway. ... Next South Broadway Line: Lexington Avenue-59th Street N R (1234) W (123a) Flushing Line: 45th Road-Court House Square 7 <7> (1a2a3b) Former and current track configurations Queensboro Plaza is an elevated station over Queensboro Plaza, at the east (Queens) end of the Queensboro Bridge, with Queens Boulevard running... For the former BMT service, see 7 (BMT). ... For the former BMT service, see 7 (BMT). ... The N Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The W Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Next South Broadway Line: Lexington Avenue-59th Street N R (1234) W (123a) Flushing Line: 45th Road-Court House Square 7 <7> (1a2a3b) Former and current track configurations Queensboro Plaza is an elevated station over Queensboro Plaza, at the east (Queens) end of the Queensboro Bridge, with Queens Boulevard running...

The North Infirmary Command, which used to be called the Rikers Island Infirmary, is used to house inmates requiring extreme protective custody, as well as some regular inmates. The rest of the facilities, all built in the last 67 years, make up this city of jails. Two of these are floating jails. Originally Staten Island ferries, the two floating detention centers are docked off the northern tip of Rikers Island. Each of them has an inmate capacity of 162 and serves as an annex to one of the other jails on the island. There is also the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, a floating barge (described below). New York City's jail system has become something of a small town. There are schools, medical clinics, ball fields, chapels, gyms, drug rehab programs, grocery stores, barbershops, a bakery, a laundromat, a power plant, a track, a tailor shop, a print shop, a bus depot and even a car wash. Rikers Island is the world's largest penal colony.[1] The Vernon C. Bain Center (VCBC) is an 800-bed barge built in New York, NY for $161 million, it is currently used as part of the New York City Department of Corrections. ...

History

The island was used as a military training ground for both European American and African American regiments during the Civil War. The first regiment to use the Island was the Ninth New York Infantry, also known as Hawkin's Zouaves, which arrived there on May 15, 1861. Hawkins' Zouaves was followed by the 36th New York State Volunteers on June 23, which was followed by the Anderson Zouaves on July 15, 1861. The Anderson Zouaves were commanded by John Lafayette Riker who was related to the owners of the island. The camp of the Anderson Zouaves was named Camp Astor in compliment to millionaire John Jacob Astor Jr. who provided funding for the army, and who appears to have made a significant contribution to the raising of the Anderson Zouaves in particular, with the Astor ladies being credited with the manufacture of the zouave uniforms worn by the recruits of this regiment. Despite the fact that Riker's Island was subsequently used by numerous Civil War regiments, the name "Camp Astor" was specific to the Anderson Zouaves and did not become a general name for the military encampment on the island. Sgt. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... The Anderson Zouaves was a New York volunteer regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. ... John Lafayette Riker (1822 – May 31, 1862) was an American attorney and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. ... John Jacob Astor III (June 10, 1822-February 22, 1890) was the elder son of William Backhouse Astor, Sr. ...

The island was bought by New York City from the Ryker family in 1884 for $180,000 and was used as a jail farm.^[7]

In 1932, the city opened a jail for men on the island to replace its dilapidated jail on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island). Landfill was added to the island in 1954. It enlarged the area of the island to 415 acres, enabling the jail facilities to expand. The original penitentiary building, completed in 1935, is now a maximum security facility called James A. Thomas Center. This article is about the island in New York City. ...

During Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's term as mayor of New York, the jail filled to overflowing, and an 800-bed barge was installed on the East River to accommodate the extra inmates. The barge is called the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, or V.C.B.C./ VCBC, and was formerly known as MTF3 (for Maritime Facility #3). VCBC is located at 1 Halleck St, Bronx, NY 10474, at the end of Hunts Point, near the recently relocated Fulton Fish Market. Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III, KBE (born May 28, 1944) served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1994 through December 31, 2001. ... New York City waterways: 1. ... The Vernon C. Bain Center (VCBC) is an 800-bed barge built in New York, NY for $161 million, it is currently used as part of the New York City Department of Corrections. ... Hunts Point is a neighborhood in the Bronx borough of New York City. ... The Markets Interior The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in New York, United States. ...

A drawing by artist Salvador Dalí, done as an apology because he was unable to attend a talk about art for the prisoners at Rikers Island, hung in the inmate dining room from 1965 to 1981, when it was moved to the prison lobby for safekeeping. The drawing was stolen in March 2003 and replaced with a fake: three Correction Officers, and an Assistant Deputy Warden were arrested and charged, and though three later pleaded guilty and one was acquitted, the drawing has not been recovered.^[8] Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a Spanish surrealist painter of Catalan descent born in Figueres, Catalonia (Spain). ...

Abuses and injustices

According to statistics from the 1992 book Inside Rikers: Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony by Jennifer Wynn, less than 25% of inmates on "The Rock" were arrested for any form of violent crime—rather mostly drug offenses—with 80% having a history of substance abuse; with 92% being black or Hispanic, even though these ethnic groups comprise less than 50% of the New York City population; with 25% having been treated for mental illness, making Rikers the U.S.'s largest "mental institution"; and 30% of whom come from the city's population of homeless. Literally one-quarter of the approximately 15,000 resident inmates (the annual turnover is around 130,000 prisoners) face paupers' bails of $500 or less.

CNN reported in 1998 that "Inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex for years have been subjected to impromptu beatings and planned assaults by guards, according to court papers. In the last decade, Rikers inmates have been brutally beaten, some suffering broken bones, ruptured eardrums or severe head injuries, The New York Times reported Sunday. Details of the beatings emerged from court papers, mainly as a result of a recent court settlement that spelled out reforms." Source: Rikers Island guards beat inmates for years CNN, August 16th, 1998.

Ten years later abuses continue to be pervasive despite repeated indictments and convictions of corrections officials, and court orders. In February 2008, jail guard Lloyd Nicholson was indicted after he allegedly used a select group of teenage inmates as enforcers under a regimen he called "the program" as well as allegedly beating inmates himself. Source: Rikers Island Fight Club by Graham Rayman, Village Voice, April 8th, 2008. The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ...

On 4 October 2007, the New York City Department of Corrections conceded that "tens of thousands of nonviolent inmates taken to Rikers Island on misdemeanor charges had been wrongly strip-searched in violation of a 2002 court settlement, and were entitled to payment for damages. As many as 150,000 such inmates have been searched at Rikers Island since 2002, lawyers for the inmates said... The policy was kept in place despite a United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruling in 2001 that strip-searches of misdemeanor suspects were illegal, unless officials suspected that they were carrying contraband..."

[Lead lawyer Richard D.] Emery charged in his papers that department officials "repeatedly resorted to lying to cover up deliberate indifference to the continued practice of humiliating detainees by forcing them to strip naked in groups." Source: City to Pay Damages for Strip Searches by Alan Feuer, 'The New York Times, October 5th, 2007. The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

Excerpt from Nigel Parry's first person journal series written in Rikers during early 2007, From Ramallah to Rikers Island: "During one dorm search, later on in my experience on Rikers Island, prison guards threatened to force us—already in underwear—to strip completely and stand "with your pecker against the guy in front of you's ass" if we either talked or didn't move quickly enough to a designated area against a wall. That and the image of the NYPD detective who took me to the Tombs, taking camera phone footage of a drunk who had passed out standing up, was somewhat disturbingly reminiscent of Abu Ghraib."

"If you think health care in America is bad, you should look at mental health care," says Steve Leifman, who works as a special advisor on criminal justice and mental health for the Florida Supreme Court. More Americans receive mental health treatment in prisons and jails than hospitals or treatment centers. In fact, the country's largest psychiatric facility isn't even a hospital, it's a prison — New York City's Rikers Island, which holds an estimated 3,000 mentally ill inmates at any given time. Fifty years ago, the U.S. had nearly 600,000 state hospital beds for people suffering from mental illness. Today, because of federal and state funding cuts, that number has dwindled to 40,000. When the government began closing state-run hospitals in the 1980s, people suffering from mental illness had nowhere to go. Without proper treatment and care, many ended up in the last place anyone wants to be. "The one institution that can never say no to anybody is jail," Leifman says. "And what's worse, now we've given [the mentally ill] a criminal record." Source: "De-Criminalizing Mental Illness", M.J. Stephey, TIME, 8 August 2007.

Cultural references

• In the movie Carlito's Way, Sean Penn's character is involved in a plot to assist in the escape of the New York Italian Mob boss from Riker's Island via boat.
• A fictional prison in the Marvel Comics universe, Ryker's Island is a stronghold for containing both human and superhuman detainees. It is based on the real life location.
  • In the first story arc of the New Avengers, the heroes (Spider-Woman, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Daredevil and Luke Cage) battle to stop a mass break-out at Ryker's orchestrated by Electro.
  • The Daredevil (Marvel Comics) storyarc "The Devil in Cell Block D" involves Daredevil's imprisonment in Riker's.
• In the video game Driver: Parallel Lines, TK's goal in one mission is to bust Candy out of Rikers.
• In the Marvel video game The Punisher, Jigsaw is imprisoned at Ryker's Island. The main character, Frank Castle, later infiltrates the prison, which leads to a large shoot-out and riot in which Jigsaw is eventually battled.
• In Futurama's 5th season episode Three Hundred Big Boys, Kif is sent to 'Commander Riker's Island', an obvious play on Rikers Island. The name is a reference to the character Commander William Riker, from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, played by Jonathan Frakes.
• In the Law and Order television franchise, convicts are often sent to Rikers Island for sex crimes and homicides. In many episodes, the detectives visit Rikers to question inmates, although the actual scenes are taped on a set as well as in the now-closed "Queen's House" jail.
• In Stephen Adly Guirgis' play Jesus Hopped the "A" Train, the character Lucius Jenkins is detained at Riker's Island.
• In a Season 1 episode of Chappelle's Show, during the sketch "PopCopy", a store clerk (played by Michael Rapaport) references that he doesn't care about his reputation and that he'll go to Riker's for three or four years "just to prove my (his) point".
• In the 2006 theatrical film "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" the character of Antonio (based on a real person) is sent to Riker's Island after he murders a street hood. His friends are told to visit him there, which they never do.
• In 1972 The Family Dogg recorded a song Riker's Island (sometimes credited as Rykers Island) about a man sent to the jail on their second album 'The View From Rowland's Head'. It was also the B side of their single Sweet America.
• The 1980 Jim Carroll Band song "People who Died" mentions Rikers in the verse: "Brian got busted on a narco rap/He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers/He said, 'Hey, I know it's dangerous, but it sure beats Riker's'/But the next day he got offed by the very same bikers".
• The 1990 Kool G Rap song "Rikers Island" tells of the facility and its notoriety within New York.
• The Sega Saturn video game Three Dirty Dwarves uses Riker's Island as a level, where the dwarves fight off escaping prisoners and prison guards.
• In the book "Monster", Steve Harmon is sent to Rikers Island while he is awaiting trial for a murder charge.
• In the book On The Road, the character Elmer Hassel is mentioned as being on Riker's Island.
• Is often mentioned, and has been visited twice in CBS crime drama CSI:NY
• The video for the Public Enemy song "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," which is about a prison riot, was filmed at Rikers Island.
• Tupac Shakur mentions "Rikers Island" in his song called Old School. He says "A young nigga tryin to stay away from Riker's Isle"
• Junior Reid and Poor Righteous Teachers mention "Rikers Island" in their song called "Dreadful Day" which is based on prison life.
• Cocoa Tea and Nardo Ranks have a song called "Rikers Island", based on the institute.
• Criminals in Gargoyles (TV series) were commonly taken to an island prison known as "Riker's Lockup".
• The WWE tag team Cryme Tyme was kayfabe put into Rikers' as an explanation for their absence after their real-life firing and rehiring.

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External links

• Rikers Island: Blocks 9000 and 9001, Block Group 9, Census Tract 1, Bronx County, New York United States Census Bureau
• http://www.nyc24.org/2003/islands/zone2/rikershistory.html
• http://www.nyc24.org/2003/islands/zone2/rikers-index.html
• Department of Correction Facilities on Rikers Island
• Map of Rikers Island.
• "Guards charged in Dali theft" - (BBC)
• "History of New York City Department of Corrections"
• "Rikers Island guards beat inmates for years" - (CNN, 1998)
• "From Ramallah to Rikers Island" - A New Journal Series by Nigel Parry from the World's Largest Penal Colony, 2008

• Rikers Island is at coordinates 40°47′26″N 73°52′55″W / 40.7905, -73.8820 (Rikers Island)Coordinates: 40°47′26″N 73°52′55″W / 40.7905, -73.8820 (Rikers Island)

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