Is Someone You Know Trapped? The Truth About Rikers Island Lookups
This film exposes the truth about daily life inside rikers: The overcrowding, the corruption, the violence, and the people both inmates and officers trapped in its endless cycle. You know how much it is now? $16 billion, said mayor eric adams. He said the four new smaller jails combined can only hold about 62% of the inmates currently incarcerated on rikers island.
For decades, rikers island has stood as a symbol of everything wrong with our criminal justice system violence, neglect, mental health crises ignored, and lives lost behind barbed wire. A view inside rikers from people who know it best new york citys rikers island houses one of the most violent, dysfunctional, and hellish jails in the country.
Rikers Island Faces Pressure for Federal Receivership
