Portraits of Rikers

Everyone that has been greatly impacted by Rikers Island has a story!

Gathering Oral Histories help our ongoing mission to carefully and collectively document what happens at Rikers Island. These memories transmute to more than just stories. Rikers Island history essentially is New York History!

December 12, 2023
Pema Baldwin and Jairo Santos, “Portraits of Rikers,” Rikers Public Memory Project Archive, accessed October 17, 2026, http://archive.rikersmemoryproject.org/items/show/309.