Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) prison island in the East River in the Bronx that contains New York City's largest jail. Named after Abraham...

Rikers Island Bridge (officially named Francis R. Buono Memorial Bridge) is a girder bridge that connects Rikers Island in the borough of the Bronx with...

be broken down. "Rikers Island" was later sampled on "40 Island" by Noreaga featuring Kool G Rap and Mussolini A-side "Rikers Island" (5:37) B-side "Rhyme...

to Close Rikers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 12, 2019. "New York city council votes to close infamous Rikers Island jails"....

York Times titled "Shut Down Rikers Island" (July 19, 2015). In the piece, Barsky argued that "the only way to transform Rikers is to destroy it; it needs...

Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City's East River between the mainland Bronx and Rikers Island. North Brother Island was once...

were conducted by inmates from the nearby Rikers Island jail until 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hart Island Project, a public charity founded by visual...

Koch. She established Fresh Start, a program under which inmates at Rikers Island receive culinary training from professional chefs. She was born as Barbara...

African American youth from The Bronx, New York, who was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, without trial, between 2010 and 2013 for allegedly stealing...

rate in the New York City jail system is as high as 65%. The jail at Rikers Island, in New York, is making efforts to reduce this statistic by teaching...