Prison Life:
Prison Life Most of Riker’s housing is dormitory style. Able-bodied sentenced inmates are required to work and provide Rikers Island with its grounds crews, facility maintenance and industrial labor force.
At the prison conditions aren’t great. It is overcrowded. 9,600 criminals on average are in Rikers. To support this, we interviewed a group member's dad who is a lawyer.
"Slightly unfair, because the conditions are not particularly good," a NYC lawyer we interviewed said, “It’s overcrowded, and the correction officers are often abusive.”
We found a website to support our claim.
“In just one measure of the extent of the violence, the investigation found that nearly 44 percent of the adolescent male population in custody as of October 2012 had been subjected to a use of force by staff members at least once.”
- https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/criminal-justice/what-happens-when-youre-arrested-new-york-city.html
Facilities:
AMKC houses male detainees in 40 housing areas spread over 40 acres
RMSC is an 800-bed facility for female detainees OBCC has dormitory and cell housing and includes the Department's 400-bed Central Punitive Segregation Unit. The jail was named for its second warden who was in command at the time of his death.
NIC consists of two separate buildings one of them the original Rikers Island Hospital built in 1932. It houses inmates who have acute medical conditions and require infirmary care, or have a disability that requires housing that is compliant with American with Disabilities Act.
NIC also houses general population inmates and inmates with high-profile cases who require protective custody.
GRVC is a 850-bed facility for detainees 500-bed addition
JATC is an 1,200-bed, all-cell jail no longer used to house inmates
WF was designed to be a 940-bed facility constructed of ‘Sprungs’ - rigid aluminum framed structures covered by a heavy-duty plastic fabric. The facility includes single-cell units, some of which make up the Department's Communicable Disease Unit (CDU). Other cells house inmates separate and apart from the CDU.