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Rikers Island is New York City's jail facility.

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  • Rikers Island is New York City's jail facility.
  • It is located at the north tip of Queens. It serves as the New York City Department of Correction's main jail facility. The complex includes detention centers for prisoners awaiting trial, such as Elias, and jails for both male and female prisoners with one year or less to serve.
  • Rikers Island is New York City's main jail complex, as well as the name of the 413.17-acre (1.672 km2) island on which it sits, in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx, adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport. In the 2011 Smurfs movie, Gargamel was sent there after his arrest, but he broke out by summoning a swarm of flies to carry him away.
  • Rikers Island is the name of a correctional facility run by the City of New York. It is used to detain those awaiting trial, as well as for convicted criminals to serve their sentence. An original Salvador Dalí painting, which he donated to the facility in the 1960s, is displayed there. (CI: "Art")
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  • Rikers Island
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  • The Smurfs
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  • Correctional facility
  • Detention of short-term prisoners and prisoners awaiting trial
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  • New York City Department of Corrections
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  • New York City
  • Queens, NYC
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  • Rikers Island is New York City's jail facility.
  • It is located at the north tip of Queens. It serves as the New York City Department of Correction's main jail facility. The complex includes detention centers for prisoners awaiting trial, such as Elias, and jails for both male and female prisoners with one year or less to serve.
  • Rikers Island is New York City's main jail complex, as well as the name of the 413.17-acre (1.672 km2) island on which it sits, in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx, adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport. In the 2011 Smurfs movie, Gargamel was sent there after his arrest, but he broke out by summoning a swarm of flies to carry him away.
  • Rikers Island is the name of a correctional facility run by the City of New York. It is used to detain those awaiting trial, as well as for convicted criminals to serve their sentence. An original Salvador Dalí painting, which he donated to the facility in the 1960s, is displayed there. (CI: "Art")
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