Rikers Island

Seven Jail Guards Busted, 14 Pull a Sickout, One Sneaky Smuggler at Rikers

Jail Guard Union Throws Party for Indicted Guards

   Last Friday, the Voice has learned, the union for correction officers held a 10-hour fundraiser to benefit three members who were indicted two weeks ago for deputizing teen inmates as enforcers in a Rikers Island jail.     In the fallout that has followed the murder of te ... More >>

Woman-on-Woman Rape Claim at Rikers

New allegation at scandal-ridden jail

City Jails Chief Gets Off With Only a Few Sentences

Council members barely question Martin Horn on the deadly teen jail at Rikers

Letters: February 18

Council members barely question Martin Horn on the deadly teen jail at Rikers

Letters: The View from inside Rikers

Council members barely question Martin Horn on the deadly teen jail at Rikers

Cell Block

City suddenly whips out plans for a new Bronx jail. Not in our wasteland, say opponents.

Alternating Currents

City suddenly whips out plans for a new Bronx jail. Not in our wasteland, say opponents.

Poster-Boy Perp

How Lester Pearson Became a Permanent Suspect

The Riot Academy

Guards Stage Mock Prison Riots to Test the Latest High-Tech Gear

NY Mirror

Guards Stage Mock Prison Riots to Test the Latest High-Tech Gear

Jailhouse Rock

A Christian Road Show Comes to Rikers

Prisoner's Dilemma

Learning the Hard Way at Rikers

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Life on the Outside

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

Letters

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

The Education of a Juror

The Woman Who Bailed Out a Drug Defendant Tells Her Story

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

For Months, D.A.'s Office Looks for Link Between Central Park Defendants and Confessed Rapist

Where Justice and Mercy Meet

In Brooklyn's Mental Health Court, compassion is the rule

Saint Bernard

Not so fast on canonizing Kerik—Bush's pick has big critics in New York

Lost and Found

Soldier, jailer, hero, myth: the rise and fall of Bernard Kerik

Letters

Soldier, jailer, hero, myth: the rise and fall of Bernard Kerik

The Miseducation of Elaine Bartlett

New York's war on drugs held her hostage for 16 years. A story of prison, politics, and one woman's pride.

Long Sentences, Short Stories

Literature from the island of misfit boys

Gangbanger as 'Terrorist'

A 9/11 anti-terror law turns out to be handy against small-time hoods

Letters

A 9/11 anti-terror law turns out to be handy against small-time hoods

Letters

A 9/11 anti-terror law turns out to be handy against small-time hoods

Rikers Boss Steps Down -- After 2-Year Voice Series

City Correction and Probation Commissioner Martin Horn, one of Mayor Bloomberg's longest serving appointees, announced his resignation today. He's leaving a jail system that for the last two years has been the subject of Voice stories about corrections officers condoning and even arranging violence ... More >>

Teen Murder at Rikers Jail

New details about the slow and painful death of a Brooklyn kid. Did guards turn a blind eye?

Do NOT Go Directly to Jail

Visiting a loved one in Rikers? Good luck.

Exterminating Angel

The twisted relationship of the goth girl, her preppy sister, and their murdered father

Letters

The twisted relationship of the goth girl, her preppy sister, and their murdered father

Rikers Fight Club: The Knockout Punch

Documents show that top officials in the city's jail system were regularly briefed on violence and extortion between teen inmates.

Lavish Bar Mitzvah in Jail? Even Rikers and Tombs Bosses Aren't That Dumb, Are They? (Updated!)

From the 'Are You Kidding Me' department...So, all the guy wanted was a bar mitzvah for his son. Sure, he's locked up in the Tombs in downtown Manhattan. But why should being in a city jail stop him? A bar mitzvah is pretty important, right? And who would blame the bigwigs of the Department of Corre ... More >>

Rikers Reading List: James Patterson, R. Pattinson in High Demand

Not on the Rikers Top 10 list.​New York Public Library book cart volunteers have gotten a look into Riker's that we mere Law and Order fan club members can only imagine. Turns out, it looks a bit like everywhere else reading-wise, except with more rules and nothing in hardcover (rarely worth t ... More >>

Rikers Chefs: 'I'ma Cut You!'

​Who's the top chef at Rikers? Our money's on the girl accused of assault, not the girl accused of jury-tampering. The knives were tethered, by the way.

Lil Wayne: The Rikers Island Prison Rap

The heartbreaking genesis of this song? Lil Wayne heard his protégé Drake's collaboration with Jay-Z, "Light Up," over the radio in his cell in Rikers, where he's serving a year and day on weapons charges. Once the center of the rap universe, Wayne was left a spectator. But not for long--a day l ... More >>

Rikers Island Carrot Cake: To Die For?

Not From Riker's​The New York Times City Room blog has the inside scoop (slice?) on the sweetest thing at Riker's Island: the bakery culture, but specifically the carrot cake. "They don't hardly give it to us enough," said Hilberto Vargas, a baker currently serving time in Rikers for stripping ... More >>

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Rikers Fight Club: Inmates Clash With Officers in Afternoon Brawl

​A Correction captain suffered broken facial bones and six other staffers were injured Tuesday afternoon in a brawl with inmates on Rikers Island. The fight at the Robert N. Davoren Center started, correction sources say, when one inmate refused to be locked in his cell because he claimed to ... More >>

Rikers Island Forcing XXL Shirts on Scantily Clad Visitors; Leggings Don't Count as Pants

​Apparently the Rikers Island visiting rooms were getting "really gross" and "out of control" -- including quickies in front of kids -- when significant others would come to visit their "sex-starved" inmate loved-ones, leading to a strict new dress code. Now, the Daily News reports, women "spi ... More >>

Rikers Island Jailer Wanted to Feed Prisoners Spoiled Meat

​One jailer at Rikers Island gave new meaning to the term jail bait when he suggested that the jail could have served spoiled meat to the prisoners. On July 11, 65,000 pounds of rotten meats were discovered in two malfunctioning freezer trailers on Rikers Island after one supervisor complained ... More >>

Somehow, Nine Corrections Officers Injured Trying to Recapture One Inmate

​A curious item in the Daily News today details how nine corrections officers were hurt trying to stop the Incredible Hulk an inmate from escaping a room at Rikers Island yesterday. Nine! Daniel Sanchez, 24, who had been charged with murder in the first degree and was caught tampering yesterda ... More >>

Floating Art Project Accidentally Shipwrecks at Rikers

NYC.gov​A floating dome made of umbrella spokes and empty soda bottles, bound on canoes from the South Bronx to Inwood, where it would have stayed in a monthlong exhibit, was shipwrecked on Rikers Island this week, causing a commotion among corrections officers, who immediately confirmed that ... More >>