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What life is really like in Rikers Island

What life is really like in Rikers Island

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle of the East River. Ranked as one of the 10 worst correctional facilities in the US, inmates there await being shipped...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle of the East River. Ranked as one of the 10 worst correctional facilities in the US, inmates there await being shipped…

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