Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Rikers Island, a prison island between Queens and the Bronx

Rikers Island prison was transferred when Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday night to Tuesday, is an island of 1.6 km2 located on the East River between the boroughs [administrative division] of Queens and the Bronx, which she is attached, near LaGuardia Airport, which serves New York. It gave its name to the large prison complex that houses it.

It employs seven thousand and fifteen hundred civilian guards. According to several websites dedicated to American prisons, it receives in buildings of varying sizes between three thousand and fourteen thousand prisoners, making it one of the largest detention centers in the world. It can hold up to seventeen thousand, according to prison authorities.

This complex, which comprises a total of ten internment centers, has been mentioned many times in films and television series Police as the place where those accused of crime were taken into custody in New York. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been acknowledged in the West Facility, the smallest of the ten units, which specializes in the detention of prisoners suffering from communicable diseases.

Strauss-Kahn will be completely separate from the thirty inmates of the center, particularly during physical activities or to go in the common room television. "This is not to isolate a prisoner from human contact, it is to ensure an inmate is not abused in any way because of his celebrity," said a door critic on condition of anonymity.

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