South Bronx Residents Fight Proposed Jail Planned After Rikers Closes
As part of the plan to shut down Rikers, smaller jails would be spread throughout the city. South Bronx residents don`t want it in t...
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Correction Officers’ Union Fed Up With Attacks On Officers At Rikers Island
A 25-year-old correction officer at Rikers Island was brutally attacked on Saturday night, leading to pleas from the officers’...
Inmates Accused In Rikers Island Correction Officer Attack Appear In Court
Four of the inmates accused of attacking a Rikers Island correction officer appeared in court Monday, while two others have yet to m...
Raw Video Of Inmates Attacking A Guard At Rikers Island
RIKERS ISLAND- On Saturday (2/10/18) around 6:30 PM a 39-year-old guard at George Motchan Detention Center on Rikers Island was ambu...
New York Has A New Policy With Prisoners on Rikers Island
In March, the safest big city in America made a historic decision. With crime at record lows, and fewer people in our jails than we’...
Expert: Don’t Move Rikers, Close It
Former jail official and author of ‘Lockdown on Rikers,’ Mary Buser, tells RT America’s Manila Chan that if the “forces...
![#TBT: ‘Scarface 4 Life: Rikers Island’ [DOCUMENTARY]](https://dondivamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tbt-scarface-4-life-rikers-islan.jpg)
#TBT: ‘Scarface 4 Life: Rikers Island’ [DOCUMENTARY]
Peep this classic documentary, ‘Scarface 4 Life.’ It features subjects who have served time or worked in the notorious R...
Colin Kaepernick Visited Rikers Island & The Guards Were PISSED!
Yesterday, former NFL star quarterback Colin Kaepernick visited Rikers Island to speak to and inspire inmates. Though the former Sup...
Three Rikers Island Inmates Attack a Guard and Beat Him on Thanksgiving Day
Captain Awais Ghauri, 31, was bruised and slashed in the attack in New York’s Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Thursday afte...
Lord Jamar: Rikers Jail Was Named After a Slave Catcher Selling Back Slaves
While Azealia Banks has been involved in her fair share of online arguments, Lord Jamar told VladTV that he can see her point when s...
Pedro Hernandez: Rikers Island’s New Kalief Browder
By now, you know who Kalief Browder was. He was the man who committed suicide after spending years on Rikers Island for a crime that...
![INSIDE RIKERS: Town Hall w/ Fat Joe, Inmates & Guards [Street Soldiers Exclusive]](https://dondivamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/inside-rikers-town-hall-w-fat-jo.jpg)
INSIDE RIKERS: Town Hall w/ Fat Joe, Inmates & Guards [Street Soldiers Exclusive]
In a special episode of Street Soldiers, Lisa Evers is joined by Fat Joe for the first ever town hall inside Rikers Island with inma...
CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Rikers Island Inmate Receives ORAL SEX from Female Visitor!
City jail officials are investigating how a detainee was able to receive oral sex from a visitor during an isolated encounter inside...
NYC Makes Plans To Move 16 & 17-Year-Olds Out Of Rikers Island
In its quest to reform its controversial Rikers Island jail facility, New York City has made sure to implement policies that benefit...
Queens Man Spent 5 Months At Rikers Not Knowing His Bail Was 2 Bucks
We often hear stories about inmates at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island, and other lockups, who are incarcerated for mo...