Rikers Island is really an hell as everyone said? Eugene Castelle'son died for an overdose because a guard ignored him,do you know if his father ever tried to do something against this guard?

IT'S RIKERS ISLAND. R-I-K-E-R-S!!!!! Not Rickers. Jesus Christ

It's a truly awful place. I wouldn't wish that shit on my worst enemy. Before he was shipped to Dannemora, Tupac Shakur spent a few months there. The whole experience made him suicidal

Tupac was gay. It's a bad place tho lol

It’s a bad place for those who need medical attention or special services without the resources to get them


If you do have the resources of connections, money or lately a claim to being gay or trans you can get specialty protection / services.

With an approved claim you can avoid being placed in a pod area where you will need to group up with others you know, have common with or make friends with / share resources to get along.

Half the People that work there are good people, the other Half are not, that makes its a really bad place to be for all.

You Won't Be SMILIN
On RIKERS ISLAND

I read the a mobster when Tony Mirra was send to Rikers that he would have a good life with all those n****rs. Its true?

And yest its so bad that they have so many re offending !!

Rikers is behind in conditions and treatment of prisoners but for the most part it's awful reputation is exaggerated. It's not hell on earth or something from a prison horror movie like it's portrayed to be. I know several people who have been there, someone I knew did a year in Rikers and said it was like a country club. Like most holding cells, the stays are shorter and people always come and go, which means it doesn't have the same potential for violence and despair as a state prison.

In Florida I met a criminal attorney from New York who described making client visits to Rikers on occasion and his view was that it was a pretty bad place, that it smelled about as bad as any human institution could possibly smell, but that there were shades of difference depending on which cell block you were in. I recall he said there were technically 10 different jails, which while under the umbrella of "Rikers" were somewhat autonomously managed, each of a different vintage, etc., which made them all a bit different.

But the main takeaway was that it was overcrowded no matter where you were.

(And no - unfortunately, he had no mob stories to share whatsoever. Yes I did ask.)

I believe there is also a big mental institution.

I spent a couple of nights in Brooklyn House of Detention and The Tombs in lower Manhattan but never made it to the shithole Rikers Island.