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.
Known Prisoners[]
L&O[]
- Willie Tivnan (L&O: "Happily Ever After")
- Brutus Walker (L&O: "A Death in the Family")
- Michael Ingrams (L&O: "Mushrooms")
- Sasha Osinski (L&O: "The Serpent's Tooth")
- Frank Kemp (L&O: "Severance (I)")
- Tracy Brandt (L&O: "Skin Deep")
- Sandra Alvaro (L&O: "Prince of Darkness")
- George Lobrano (L&O: "Prince of Darkness")
- Arthur Tunney (L&O: "Profile")
- Daniel Hendricks (L&O: "Apocrypha")
- Irina Cooper (L&O: "The Pursuit of Happiness")
- Helena Navarro (L&O: "Snatched")
- Shep Watson (L&O: "Snatched")
- Dorothy Baxter (L&O: "Breeder")
- Max Weiss (L&O: "Big Bang")
- Scott Hexter (L&O: "Mayhem")
- Dewey Lattimer (L&O: "Purple Heart")
- Ted Quinlan (L&O: "Savages")
- Peter Nicodos, Jr. (L&O: "Jeopardy")
- James Smith (L&O: "Pro Se")
- Lewis Darnell (L&O: "Mad Dog")
- Ricky Garcia (L&O: "We Like Mike")
- Dale Kershaw (L&O: "Thrill")
- Elias Camacho (L&O: "Harvest")
- Russell Lowery (L&O: "Stalker")
- Jesse Castillo (L&O: "Monster")
- Reggie Mathis (L&O: "Bait")
- Oscar Benvenidez (L&O: "Bait")
- Philip Andrews (L&O: "Turnstile Justice")
- Cally Lonegan (L&O: "Brother's Keeper")
- Randall Wylie (L&O: "Judge Dread")
- Julian Preuss (L&O: "Open Season")
- Eddie Travandze (L&O: "Absentia")
- Clay Warner (L&O: "Genius")
- Herman Capshaw (L&O: "Sheltered")
- Mark Bruner (L&O: "Bodies")
- Adele Byrne (L&O: "C.O.D.")
- Davey Buckley (L&O: "Locomotion")
- Dwight Jacobs (L&O: "Red Ball")
- Leland Barnes (L&O: "Criminal Law")
- Mitch Carroll (L&O: "In Vino Veritas")
- Julio Rodriguez (L&O: "Melting Pot")
- Jacob Reese (L&O: "Good Faith")
- Roger Kraslow (L&O: "Captive")
- Ted Sanderson (L&O: "Strike")
- Ned Lasky (L&O: "Pledge")
- Frederic Matson (L&O: "Anchors Away")
- Wendy Teal (L&O: "Exchange")
- Jonah Applebaum (L&O: "Skate or Die")
- Zachary Marshall (L&O: "Doped")
- Bart Rainey (L&O: "For the Defense")
- Dennis Di Palma (L&O: "Blackmail")
- Dolores Martin (L&O: "Four Cops Shot")
- Dana Silva (L&O: "Brazil")
- Wyatt Ackman (L&O: "The Great Pretender")
- Nick Castillo (L&O: "Vicious Cycle")
- Troy Booker (L&O: "The System")
- Lucas Hobbs (L&O: "Deadline")
- Kenneth Cartwright (L&O: "On The Ledge")
SVU[]
- Victor Spicer (SVU: "Payback")
- Alfonso Cardenas (SVU: "The Third Guy")
- Carlos Medina (SVU: "The Third Guy")
- Russell Ramsay (SVU: "Taken")
- Clayton Mills (SVU: "Countdown")
- Frank Foster ((SVU: "Runaway")
- Leslie DeSantis (SVU: "Folly")
- Russell Williams (SVU: "Wrath")
- Dorothy Rudd (SVU: "Care")
- Grace Rinato (SVU: "Denial")
- Maggie Peterson (SVU: "Chameleon")
- Kyle Fuller (SVU: "Deception")
- Tommy Hedges (SVU: "Appearances")
- Cheryl Avery (SVU: "Fallacy")
- Sean Webster (SVU: "Hate")
- Javier Vega (SVU: "Criminal")
- Mark Dobbins (SVU: "Contagious")
- Brannon Lee Redding (SVU: "Raw")
- Walter Inman (SVU: "Manipulated")
- Seth Millstead (SVU: "Loophole")
- Saul Picard (SVU: "Blinded")
- Jadon Odami (SVU: "Fight")
- Ezra Odami (SVU: "Fight")
- Kathleen Stabler (SVU: "Swing")
- Carl Vucelik (SVU: "Stranger")
- Ashlee Walker (SVU: "Selfish")
- Marshall Koehler (SVU: "Liberties")
- Mark Foster (SVU: "Unstable")
- Anne Gillette (SVU: "Shadow")
- Eldon Balogh (SVU: "Possessed")
- Daniel Brooks (SVU: "Possessed")
- Angel Rivera (SVU: "Dirty")
- Dwight Talcott (SVU: "Reparations")
- Roberto Distasio (SVU: "Scorched Earth")
- Kurt Sandow (SVU: "Father's Shadow")
- Jackie Walker (SVU: "Dissonant Voices")
- William Lewis (SVU: "Psycho/Therapist" & "Beast's Obsession")
- Manny Montero (SVU: "Betrayal's Climax")
- Carlos Hernandez (SVU: "Betrayal's Climax" & "Beast's Obsession")
- Selena Cruz (SVU: "Girls Disappeared")
- Johnny Drake (SVU: "Surrendering Noah")
- Carl Rudnick (SVU: "Criminal Pathology")
- Kim Rollins (SVU: "Maternal Instincts" & "Heightened Emotions")
- Thomas Zimmerman (SVU: "Sheltered Outcasts")
- Lucas Hull (SVU: "Conversion")
- Gary Langham (SVU: "Conversion")
- Nick Hunter (SVU: "Sunk Cost Fallacy")
- Lilah Finch (SVU: "Accredo")
- Jeffrey Moran (SVU: "Down Low In Hell's Kitchen")
- Esperanza Morales (SVU: "Redemption In Her Corner")
- Mickey Davis (SVU: "Sightless in a Savage Land")
- Ari Moldovan (SVU: "Hunt, Trap, Rape, and Release")
- Sacha Lenski (SVU: "Return Of The Prodigal Son")
- Jade Chen (SVU: "Trick-Rolled At The Moulin'")
- Paulie Banducci (SVU: "And The Empire Strikes Back")
- Victoria Warshofsky (SVU: "Nightmares In Drill City")
- Theodore Murtaugh (SVU: "Burning With Rage Forever")
- Dustin Tinsley (SVU: "Eighteen Wheels a Predator")
- Elias Olsen (SVU: "The Steps We Cannot Take")
- Hector Suarez (SVU: "Soldier Up" & "Blood Out")
- Oscar Papa (SVU: "Blood Out")
- Billy Hedges (SVU: "Duty to Hope")
CI[]
- Kevin Reddick (CI: "Seizure")
- Milton Winters (CI: "Cuba Libre")
- Dempsey Powers (CI: "Cuba Libre")
- Tamara Bates (CI: "Stray")
- Wade Brownfeld (CI: "False-Hearted Judges")
- Conroy Smith (CI: "In the Wee Small Hours (Part I)")
- Antonio Mattini (CI: "To the Bone")
- Kazi Hasni (CI: "World's Fair")
- Gordon Thomas (CI: "Flipped")
- Noah Brezner (CI: "Lonelyville")
- Donny Carlson (CI: "Untethered")
OC[]
- Izak Bekher (OC: "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of")
- Richard Wheatley (OC: "Forget It Jake; It's Chinatown" & "The Man With No Identity")
- Richard Wheatley, Jr. (OC: "Forget It Jake; It's Chinatown")
- Joey Raven (OC: "Forget It Jake; It's Chinatown")
- Lance Flowers (OC: "Forget It Jake It's Chinatown")
- Hugo Bankole (OC: "Forget It Jake; It's Chinatown, "The Man With No Identity" & "The Outlaw Eddie Wagner")
- Edmund Ross (OC: "High Planes Grifter")
- Kenny Kyle (OC: "Spirit In The Sky")
- Bobby Reyes (undercover) (OC: "Spirit In The Sky")
- Tino Alvarez (OC: "Trap")
- Gustavo Lopez (OC: "Punch Drunk")
Trivia[]
- In the Law & Order franchise, convicts are often sent to Rikers Island for sex crimes and homicides. In many episodes, the detectives visit Rikers to question inmates, although the actual scenes are taped on a set, as well as in the now-closed "Queen's House" jail.