Quotes About Rikers

In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.

I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.

Her eyes grew wide and she briefly covered her mouth with her hand. "Are you a virgin?" she whispered. "What? No!" "But when do you find time with that rigid schedule of yours? I mean prisoners at Rikers have more freedom!