Rikers Island Inmate Lookup

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VINELINK – Inmate Search; If you are certain your inmate is in Rikers Island - West Facility, or at the very least in New York County County, go to this page to search for them. If the Rikers Island - West Facility inmate search website is not currently online or up to date, call 212-266-1500 for assistance in locating your inmate. There is the NYC DOC – Rikers Island – Otis Bantum Correctional Center (OBDC) and the county jail. You will find that the city jail is a lot smaller than the county jail. This jail is also a holding cell, so inmates are not here for a long period of time. How to Find an Inmate at the NYC DOC - Rikers Island - Otis Bantum Correctional Center. Inmate Population Information Search. Please specify one or more of the following: Use Name alone or in combination with birth year. More on Name Search. VINELINK – Inmate Search; If you are certain your inmate is in Rikers Island - West Facility, or at the very least in New York County County, go to this page to search for them. If the Rikers Island - West Facility inmate search website is not currently online or up to date, call 212-266-1500 for assistance in locating your inmate. Each correctional facility has its own rules on visitation, commissary, and mail. This facility also has guidelines to follow. Before connecting with a loved one here, you can find them using a free inmate locator for NYC DOC - Rikers Island - Rose M. Singer Center (RMSC). Pigeonly provides lookup and other inmate services.

The Island of the Rikers Island Inmates

Rikers Island inmates are under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Corrections.

It truly is an island that sits in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx, adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport. It serves as a jail facility for New York City and there are 10 different jails on the island.
The island is named after Abraham Rycken, a Dutch settler who moved to Long Island in 1638 and whose descendants owned Rikers Island until 1884, when it was sold to the city for $180,000. It has been used as a jail ever since. The island was a bit over 87 acres when initially purchased. Since that tie, the island has been expanded by landfill to its currents size: 415 acres.

How do you find Rikers inmates?

To find an inmate, click to the Inmate Lookup Service page. Enter a name and click 'Search'. You will be brought to the next page which will give you:

date of birth
ID number
facility where housed
discharge date
next court date
bail and bond information

If you click the name, on the next page you may review:

personal description
photo, if available
booking information
charge information
warrant information

Rikers Island Prisons

If you are looking for an address and description of the facilities on Rikers Island, go to these links:

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Facility Addresses

Useful Information for Families and Friends

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Do you have questions about visitation, sending money, and how to get release information? Follow the links below for the answers to those and other questions:

Visiting an Inmate
How to Send Money
How to Pick up Inmate Property

Famous Inmates held at Rikers

Here is a list of famous inmates once held at the prison:

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1. Tupac Shakur: served part of an eight month sentence at Rikers.

2. Sid Vicious: spent 7 weeks at Rikers at the end of 1978. Upon being released he was celebrating at a party and was found dead the next morning from a drug overdose.

3. David Berkowitz (Son of Sam): arrested in 1997 after a year long killing spree.

4. Mark David Chapman (assassinated John Lennon)

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5. Lil Wayne: served a year at Rikers being release in 2010. He was convicted of weapons charges.

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