Rikers Island
- 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].
- Clearly, that is not the case on Rikers Island. Rikers is a human warehouse where dangerous individuals, who are overseen by officers who often don’t care...
- Here's Why Rikers Island Is in Crisis. Nov 8, 2021. ... NYC politicians' Rikers Island tour includes inmate attempting suicide. Sep 13, 2021.
- Are you looking for the famous Rikers Island inmates? Riker Island has housed some popular names in the United States and beyond.
- Alex Alexander joins defense attorneys and prison rights advocates to demand that the criminal courts stop sending people to the Rikers Island jail.
- Rikers Island, island in the East River near the entrance of Bowery Bay, north of La Guardia Airport, New York, New York, U.S...
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- The original penitentiary building was built in the early 1930’s and has “RIKERS ISLAND PENITENTIARY” engraved in granite across its frontispiece.
- This is what the epicenter of the crisis on Rikers Island — which has a whopping $1.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2022 — looked like for months.
- Rikers Island is a complex of short-term detention facilities and jails, where Reese was brought for interrogation after he was captured by the FBI.
Genel bilgiler
New York'ta bir ada ve hapishane kompleksidir. Ada, Queens ile anakaradaki Bronx arasındaki East River'da LaGuardia Havalimanı'nın pistlerine bitişik noktada yer almaktadır. Rikers Island, dünyanın en büyük ceza infaz ve ıslah kurumlarından birine ev sahipliği yapmaktadır ve New York'un en ünlü hapishanesidir.
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Kısa bilgiler
- Yüzölçümü:1,67 km²
- Nüfusu:11.350 (2009)