Rikers in a sentence

But the city stuck with Rikers as the place to leave the people society had deemed worthy of incarceration, the vast majority poor and of color.

Heck, the only reason Rideout is sitting in Rikers today is that he counts as a “flight risk” because when nabbed, he was carrying an overnight bag stuffed with clothing and toiletries.

Ironically, it is constructed uncomfortably close to an actual prison, the infamous Rikers Island.

Mr. Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer, is already serving a five-month sentence in the Rikers Island jail complex after pleading guilty to unrelated tax fraud charges.

On Tuesday, Weisselberg was sentenced to five months at the infamous Rikers Island jail in New York.

The mother hustles in Harlem to provide for her son, Terry, who was neglected in the foster care system while she was incarcerated at Rikers Island.

Weisselberg will serve his sentence at Rikers Island, the notorious New York City jail, and will be placed separate from the general population.

Additionally, Adams maintains that the issues with Rikers far predate his or Molina’s times running the jail.

A New York City housing court judge signed an arrest warrant on Tuesday for the landlord, Daniel Ohebshalom, which calls for him to be detained at Rikers Island for 60 days.

At present, around 6,200 inmates call Rikers home, whereas the intended new facilities would provide space for roughly 3,300 people.

Because Rikers is “the most infamous jail in the U.S., on top of it being culturally identified in hip-hop and rap music,” the name alone is likely to sell books, he said.

Earlier this year, he served time at Rikers Island for a series of burglaries in Manhattan and was later hospitalized in Bellevue’s psychiatric ward after assaulting a corrections officer.

He remains jailed at the city’s Rikers Island complex.

Roughly 42 – or 0.7% -- of the 6,135 detainees who were on Rikers Island and other city lockups from April through June identify as trans, intersex or non-binary, records show.

The 72-year-old was taken to the hospital from the Rikers Island jail in New York, where he is being held in custody.

There is growing momentum for the shuttering of Rikers Island following the deaths of nine individuals in custody in 2023, according to figures from city comptroller Brad Lander's dashboard, which labeled New York's jails as "a moral stain on the city".

There was no indication that Mr. Rivera had a serious mental illness in New York before he was sent to Rikers, according to the person who was familiar with Mr. Rivera’s social service records.

Weisselberg is serving a jail sentence at New York’s Rikers Island for perjuring himself in the New York Attorney General’s civil case against Trump for deceiving banks about his wealth.

Williams’ office announced its intentions to investigate “the ongoing risk of harm to both incarcerated individuals and Department of Correction (DOC) Staff” at Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious jail.

A cell in an enhanced supervision housing unit on Rikers Island pictured in 2015.