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	Beyond Manhattan \| Rikers Island \| History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After 1954, landfill was added to enlarge the area of the island to 415 acres, enabling the jail facilities to expand.
		Although technically part of the Bronx, the island is best viewed and entered from Queens, to which it is connected via the Rikers Island Bridge.
		The island got its lighthouse legend at the beginning of the last century from a tragedy.
	www.nyc24.org /2003/islands/zone2/rikershistory.html (1127 words)

	Rikers Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rikers Island is the name of New York City's largest jail facility, as well as the name of the 415 acre (1.7 km²) plot of land on which it sits, in the East River between the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx.
		The facility is named after Abraham Rycken, 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 in one form or another ever since.
		A drawing by artist Salvador Dali, done as an apology because he was unable to attend a talk on 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riker's_Island (387 words)

	WoD: Gotham - Gotham City - The Bronx - Rikers Island
		The jails on Rikers Island are maintained by the New York City Department of Corrections.Each facility has its own specific inmate profiles, but the majority of prisoners are those being held over for trial that have been denied or can not post bail.
		Rikers Island facilities have become less violent over the last 5 years as the DOC has instituted many additional upgrades in equipment for the guards as well as a new tougher policy which tries prisoners for offenses while in custody and is served concurrent with their original sentences.
		Still the Island is infamous for its violence and brutality on the part of inmates...many of whom are hardened violent felons and murderers.
	members.tripod.com /wodgotham1/rikers.htm (559 words)

	village voice > news > Roaming Rikers by Jennifer Gonnerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The island is the heart of New York City's jail system, home to 80 percent of its 14,600 or so inmates, with nine jails for men and one for women.
		Rikers prisoners refer to their home as "the Rock," but from an archaeological point of view it's more accurate to call this place a dump.
		Long before Rikers Island housed the accused, it served as the repository of what the city proper had no use for—broken boilers, old sofas, horse manure, garbage, tin cans, street sweepings, and earth from subway excavations.
	villagevoice.com /issues/0050/gonnerman1.php (2879 words)

	Rikers Island Prison Disturbance Page
		A melee involving some of the highest-security inmates at the Rikers Island jail left 13 correctional officers and 13 inmates injured last night in the worst disturbance at the jail in nearly four years, correction officials said.
		Rikers Island is a very tough prison and this occurred at a tense time.
		ABSTRACT: In the second serious disturbance at Rikers Island in less than a month, inmates at the jail complex tried to block correction officers from subduing an unruly inmate in a corridor on Apr. 9, 1994, city officials said.
	www.strengthtech.com /correct/incident/rikers.htm (983 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War: THE VETERAN: "Another Brother" on Rikers Island
		Horizon is on Rikers Island and the students who are watching Clarence speak are detainees in the adolescent detention center located there.
		He supplied us with detailed directions, but the entrance to Rikers Island is hard to find and we make several wrong turns before we find the road leading to the jail tucked into a residential neighborhood in Queens.
		A large sign across the entrance proclaims the Rikers Island corrections officers to be "the boldest in the world." It feels to me like we are entering enemy territory and voluntarily placing ourselves in the hands of these bold correction officers.
	www.vvaw.org /veteran/article?id=15 (2511 words)

	village voice > news > Andre's World by Victor Buhler
		Andre was pending his bid in Rikers Island jail, the largest city correctional facility in North America, drawing cartoons.
		For many teens in Rikers, Island Academy is their first experience of formal education for years.
		Rikers does not reform these teenagers and they return with virtual certainty: Eight out of 10 are re-arrested within a year of their release.
	www.villagevoice.com /generic/show_print.php?id=68655&page=buhler&issue=0541&printcde=MzM4ODMyMDc1OQ==&refpage=L25ld3MvaW5kZXgucGhwP2lzc3VlPTA1NDEmcGFnZT1idWhsZXImaWQ9Njg2NTU= (1844 words)

	Big Apple Kids - Law, Education & Health
		Unlike Rikers' other two high schools, Island Academy is separate from the main part of the prison, past the Canadian geese that roam the island, and the horticulture patch, where inmates till vegetables for Rikers' mess halls.
		Island does not award high school diplomas, but it tries to keep the students who want to return to high school on course.
		He was good for a week." A survey of 100 adolescents released from Rikers in 1995 found that only 25 had enrolled in school six months after their release, and of this 25, four had dropped out.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/children/1997/lastchance.asp (2253 words)

	Beyond Manhattan \| Rikers Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It costs New Yorkers $860 million a year to run an island that is only half the size of Central Park.
		With schools, medical clinics, ball fields, chapels, gyms, grocery stores, barbershops, a power plant, a tailor, a bus depot and even a car wash, Rikers is virtually a city of its own.
		There are as many tales about Rikers Island as there are visitors to it.
	nyc24.jrn.columbia.edu /2003/islands/zone2/rikers-index.html (137 words)

	Giuliani and Rikers Island: New York prison administers medicine for profit
		He had gone to the Rikers Island clinic complaining of crushing chest pains and had an abnormal x-ray, but despite multiple visits to the clinic, he was never referred to a specialist.
		Imprisoned on Rikers, he was a heroin addict suffering from HIV and asthma.
		In the end, the barbarism that the profit system inflicts on the most oppressed and defenseless sections of the population, many of whom are to be found behind bars in places like Rikers Island, rebounds on society as a whole in the form of the most virulent medical and social pathologies.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/oct1998/nyc-o24.shtml (1575 words)

	Article: ROAMING RIKERS
		Rikers' daytime population-including prisoners, employees, and visitors-is enormous, nearly 20,000.
		Two-thirds of the inmates are detainees-legally innocent and waiting for their cases to crawl through the courts-while one-third have been sentenced and are waiting for an empty bed in an upstate prison or are serving a year or less here.
		Long before Rikers Island housed the accused, it served as the repository of what the city proper had no use for-broken boilers, old sofas, horse manure, garbage, tin cans, street sweepings, and earth from subway excavations.
	www.prisonerlife.com /articles/articleID=22.cfm (2926 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Inside Rikers : Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rikers Island penal colony is a world unto itself, with its own power plant, schools, hospital, even a tailor.
		Her portrait of Rikers as a miniature, punitive Gotham is colorful and complex; moreover, it forces us to acknowledge the inequalities and intricacies of life behind bars, which those ex-convicts continue to face once they step off this island, headed for either prison upstate or to freedom.
		Insider Rikers is about the island jail that services NYC, and although much of Wynn's material is NYC-specific and her original evidence is all anecdotal, her stories of inmates trying to get out of the oppressive cycle of poverty, crime and conviction should be of universal concern.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312261799?v=glance (1930 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rikers Island is a massive jail complex, right in the heart of New York City.
		Rikers is a massive secret waystation in the midst of the towering Gotham of wealth and privilege.
		Rikers Island, home of some of the City's most important and life-changing destinations, is totally obliterated on that map.
	www.choiresicha.com /clips/rikers.html (582 words)

	Beyond Manhattan \| Rikers Island \| History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		New York City bought the island from the Ryker family in 1884 for $180,000 and used it as a jail farm.
		North Brother Island was in private hands until it was purchased in 1871 by the Town of Morrisania.
		The island got its lighthouse legend at the beginning of the last century from a tragedy.
	nyc24.jrn.columbia.edu /2003/islands/zone2/rikershistory.html (1127 words)

	More on Rikers Island Beatings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But as he took the bus over the bridge a Rikers six weeks ago - this time as counselor, not a prisoner - his mind flashe to one of his worst memories: the day in 1992when four correction officers, surrounding him in a cell, punched and stomped him untilhe was bloody.
		The law of the street is certainly the code of behavior for many of the 17,500 inmates in Rikers' 10 jails, where the drug trade is brisk, homemade weapons abound, and slashings over sneakers, telephone time or some perceived display of disrespect are common.
		The violence came after a two-day blockade of the bridge to Rikers Island by correction officers who were angry at, among other things, the assault on a fellow officer by inmates and the department's use-offorce policy, which the officers felt was too restrictive.
	prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1996-February/000196.html (882 words)

	National Lighthouse Museum - North Brother Island Lighthouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This little known lighthouse located in the Bay of Brothers, between the Bronx and Queens, near Rikers Island, served the captains of the harbor who sailed through Hell’s Gate from 1869 to 1953.
		People on the island assisted in the rescue of hundreds of passengers, but panic set among those on board and over 1000 lives were lost.
		The lighthouse is visible from the northeast shore of Randalls Island or approached by small boat.
	www.lighthousemuseum.org /nylights/nbrother.htm (246 words)

	Prisons » MapSeeing.com
		Rikers Island is New York City’s largest jail facility.
		The island which the facility sits on is also called Rikers Island is over 413 acres.
		Alcatraz Island (slang: The Rock) is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States that served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, and then a federal prison for the area until 1963, when it became a national recreation area.
	www.mapseeing.com /category/category/prisons (179 words)

	360degrees: From Women at Rikers Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		My husband was home less then 2 weeks and they took him out of our home and sent him to Rikers Island and he is been there 6 months now.I love him and all i do is cry and pray that he is going to be okay.
		Rikers Island is where inmates are held while they wait for trial.
		As for Rikers Island, it is a horrible place for anyone to be, the officers talk down to you, and treat you as an animal.
	www.360degrees.org /cgi-bin/discuss/discuss.cgi?mode=AREA&area=From_Women_at_Rikers_Island (5358 words)

	Brother Island: New York History
		The building of the prison-city on Rikers Island in the early thirties, during the depths of the Depression, was made even gloomier by a lesser-known marine disaster: the explosion and sinking of the steamship Observation.
		Then I thought about these old typhoid grounds becoming a bird sanctuary, and the likelihood that the city's birders would be successful in their efforts to protect the uninhabited Brother islands, North and South, as part of a chain of bird-nesting islands in the city's river system.
		Across from Rikers on the Bronx shore, we passed a dark prison barge the size of an apartment house, moored as if waiting to catch the criminal effluent.
	www.newyorkhistory.info /Hell-Gate/Brother-Island.html (1472 words)

	Tails From the Big House
		Because the inmate population on Rikers Island is transient the decision was made not to invite their participation.
		It's impossible to know for sure, but it's suspected that at least one pair of cats were transported and abandoned on the island about 20 years ago, and the rest is history.
		And while Rikers Island is a relatively isolated area, feral cat colonies tend to spring up in or near residential neighborhood and are not universally welcomed neighbors.
	www.newyorktails.com /jailtail.htm (1363 words)

	[No title]
		They are among about 150 young men who are doing time for assorted misdemeanors and low-level felonies and who study at Island Academy, a high school on Rikers.
		Island Academy, run by the Board of Education, gives them a full day of classes.
		The idea is to get them to challenge their own values and choices." Of course, a chance to write plays on Rikers Island can run a distant second to not being on Rikers at all.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/99nyc/[PRISONACT]_NY:_Theatre_on_Rikers (765 words)

	George R. Vierno Center Addition, Rikers Island, New York, N.Y. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When New York City decided it needed space for 500 more prisoners in its massive Rikers Island facility, it allowed 600 days - 20 months - to bring the new building from concept to completion.
		This new addition to the Vierno Center marks the first use of precast concrete on Rikers Island, New York City's prison system, according to Robert Skallerup, a principal in the architectural firm.
		Rikers Island, N.Y. Precast Cells Lock In Advantages
	www.pci.org /markets/markets.cfm?path=justice&id=rikers.cfm (636 words)

	Rikers Jails
		Built in 1933 as Rikers Island’s first permanent jail, the HDM originally was called the Rikers Island Penitentiary.
		They constitute Rikers Island's grounds crews, facility maintenance and industrial labor force.
		In July, 2000 the institution's name was changed from the Correctional Institution for Men to the Eric M. Taylor Center in honor of a retired Chief of Department who capped a distinguished career by helping lead the agency to significant gains in jail safety, efficiency and performance.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/jailist1.html (342 words)

	ISLAND OF PAIN BECOMES AN ISLAND OF LOVE FOR MANY...
		For the thousands of inmates whose home is the prison-city called Rikers Island, New York, this is a place of pain.
		Located on an island in the East River, between Queens and the Bronx, it was built on a 400-acre plot of land in the early thirties, during the depths of the Depression.
		A surprising attendee was a Muslim cleric who warmly welcomed Mike MacIntosh and his team to Rikers Island.
	www.assistnews.net /STORIES/2002/s02080098.htm (1134 words)

	SWAN - Sahaja Yoga Meditation: Rikers Island Correctional Facility [Saturday, March 06, 2004]
		The reference letters of the Rikers Island prison officials also describe the positive effect the meditations had on the prisoners’ behavior.
		Rikers Island is a holding center for all prisoners who are waiting to go on trial.
		Probably the most dramatic testimony is the transformation of Temba Spirits, a former prisoner at Rikers Island who found one of our pamphlets.
	www.sahajayoga.org /swan/view/swan_233_2004.asp (2570 words)

	Real Estate Weekly: $100 mil. Rikers Island addition completed - $100 million addition to George R. Vierno Center ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The protocols for the abatement system were developed during construction and represent the first time this technology was used on Rikers' Island.
		To augment the abatement system, a gas detection system was installed to detect possible methane gas seepage into the building due to a compromise in the membrane.
		The project's partnering team consisted of CRSS as design/builder and construction manager, New York City Department of General Services' Rikers Island Task Force headed by Richard Banks from the Mayor's Office on Construction, and the New York City Department of Corrections.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_n18_v40/ai_14808371 (750 words)

	High Impact Incarceration Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The High Impact Incarceration Program (HIIP), sometimes referred to informally as the Rikers Island inmate "boot-camp," is a voluntary 61-day, 200-bed residential program for technical parole violators and some City-sentenced adult inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes.
		HIIP operates out of a compound at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island and is believed to be the nation's first urban boot camp.
		The Island Academy is part of the academic and vocational education segments, conducting Pre-GED, GED and Construction workshop.
	www.ci.nyc.ny.us /html/doc/html/hiip.html (596 words)

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