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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).
The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center (VCBC; also known as the Vernon C. Bain Maritime Facility [2] and nicknamed "The Boat" [3]) was an 800-bed jail barge used to hold inmates for the New York City Department of Corrections. The barge was anchored off the Bronx's southern shore, across from Rikers Island, near Hunts Point.
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 ...
A federal judge has ordered New York City to draft plans to hand over management of its Rikers Island jail complex to a third-party receiver after holding the city's Department of Corrections (DOC ...
For the first time, a jail facility has opened a unit specifically for inmates who have served in the military.
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 1988 1,722 Bedford Hills Correctional Facility: Westchester: Maximum (female) 1901 921 Cape Vincent Correctional Facility ...
Of the more than 2,500 lawsuits filed under a special New York law, nearly 20% allege sexual violence against current or former prisoners at the infamous Rikers Island facilities.