Rikers Island: Trash Paradise

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Environmental resource:
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Rikers Island- American Civil War:
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Rikers Island- The Draft:
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New York Times- On inmate isolation: www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/ny...
Psychology Today- Solitary Confinement and the brain:
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Strip Searches:
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/ny...
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Rikers Island Closing:
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@geographicstravel 2 года назад

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@mmilller452 2 года назад

DeBlassio s term ended in December

@jiukumite 2 года назад

Propoganda begins at 5:14, ends at 6:37.

@bludowski 2 года назад

Our current mayor is Eric Adams

@Zoubirking-1970 2 года назад

Geographics @ where you from in England

@origamiswami2275 2 года назад

In my youth I was an out-of-control idiot criminal (basically just a casualty of the War on Drugs) and managed to earn myself numerous visits to west coast jails and prisons. Then I moved to NYC (Astoria, Queens, near the bridge to Riker's, coincidentally) but hearing stories about Riker's from my brother-in-law who spent time there on a regular basis cured me of my criminal tendencies, thank God.

@robertfrancis6967 2 года назад

Lol same here except the opposite, never been to rikers just a few county jails in Upstate NY n a 6yr stretch in NY state prison where roughly 80% of inmates came out of the city and through Rikers. Not saying NYS DOCS is a non stop good time but it has its moments and it's more of what you make it you want fighting and violence you can have all you want ýou wanna kick back read a book and mind your business you can do that too. I currently live in Arizona on the border of San Bernardino County CA n one of the 1st people I hung with was a guy from work that was a skinhead and product of the CA prison system n stories I got from him made me want no part of CA or AZ prison system

@Slayerrrrrr 2 года назад

Lol nice to see another Astorian here

@fullcircle8231 5 месяцев назад

@origamiswami2275 casualty of the war on drugs? How did that lead you down a path of criminality and drug use exactly?

@richardpatton2502 2 года назад

If you’re not an hardcore criminal going in…you’ll be one by the time you get out All the best to everyone

@jwenting 2 года назад

or you get Epsteined...

@310percentage Год назад

Only prison where no one gets paroled early for good behavior. They make it impossible

@chaosmarklar Год назад

Rikers is for sentences under 1 year only, becauseits a city jail, not a prison, the average sentence served on rikers is less than 4 months

@richardhoff1626 2 года назад

I am in my Sixties. When I was in high school, they brought in prisoners from Rahway Prison in New Jersey to speak to students about staying out of jail. The program was called "Scared Straight." Guess what? Prison is not a place you want to go. If this is news to anyone, heaven help us.

@ghost_of_nyc6497 2 года назад

Worked on the outside of riker’s electrical and inmates would yell some funny stuff at you and you couldn’t laugh. “Hey hey mr electrician, FU!” Ok strange compelling response I probably deserved it

@curtstanfield324 2 года назад

"Current Mayor Bill de Blasio" and "Currently dwindling crime rate" makes me believe this script was written a long time ago.

@NYmomAdrienne3915 2 года назад

Seriously, “current Mayor Adams” and “current crime surge” is Manhattan these days. Hey, makes my home value in Long Island triple so far

@whitlatch1999 2 года назад

the only crimes not decreasing are murders and assaults, everything else has been decreasing.

@Eblis840 2 года назад

@@NYmomAdrienne3915 ah yes, Long Island, Home of ingrained institutional racism. from red lining as to not allow mixing of ethnic minority communities in school districts or purchases of homes, too the infrastructure of the highway system itself not allowing tall buses as to deter anyone wanting to visit the beaches... Can't forget the rampent opioid and fentanyl overdoses(mainly white kids) aswell as MS-13 gang members seemingly infiltrating every crevice of that Island, it's almost as if the Italian mob is in bed with them... A toast to the high life! 🥂🍾 Only good thing to come out of that place in recent years is Tim Dillon...

@izzyguy6158 2 года назад

Yeah definitely not current, still a great video though.

@sowhenthen 2 года назад

@@NYmomAdrienne3915 great for you?

@bjkarana 2 года назад

All I know is that on Law & Order, a mere suggestion of being sent to Riker's results in even the most stubborn witness fully cooperating with the detectives. ;-)

@npierce14 2 года назад

Right lol rikers scares the hell out of them but they still talk shit when they bring up sing sing they also get quiet when you bring up Attica

@SuperSchott 2 года назад

How is anyone supposed to keep track of the 498 RU-vid channels that Simon has?

@RubyDoobieScoo 2 года назад

I'm just waiting for his TopTenz Simon Whistler channels. I had hoped that was going to be his April Fools video. Maybe next year.

@jonprior2355 2 года назад

One does not simply keep track of Simon's channels.

@NX-gw7wg 2 года назад

Seems I find a new one every few days...

@saulthechicanootaku 2 года назад

I guess you can say he's basically RU-vid Swiss Army Knife

@papanoel3999 2 года назад

498..i thought it was well over 500..lol.

@BluesBoy-ij2rb 2 года назад

I worked on building a steam tunnel there in the early 90's , the garbage they dug through was loaded with medical waste all kinds of old blue, brown and clear antique medicine bottles were laying all over the ground, and yes big problem with methane gas leaking into the tunnel....................Erik

@pamelamays4186 2 года назад

What goes on at Rikers Island, like "The Enforcers" would make an interesting Into The Shadows episode.

@charleswarden291 2 года назад

Years ago I read that none other than Winston Churchill said something to the effect of " If you want to see the worst shitheads a country has to offer, just sit in the parking lot of a prison at shift change."

@linphillips8331 2 года назад

Can confirm. I turned myself in to sit out traffic fines and witnessed that the guards were probably worse than the inmates, and they hold complete power over you. You're less than a sack of meat to them.

@pammmmm 2 года назад

🤣😂😆👍

@dandylionsloth446 2 года назад

Truth, they have a very high rate of domestic abuse, just like cops.

@Magepure6749 2 года назад

@William Robinson lol "Fox "News"" is still better than *Chinese News Network* or MSDNC, and you know it :^) Or you could just, you know, *stop watching ancient corporate propaganda altogether* like a normal modern human being ^.^

@ek8710 2 года назад

" If you want to see the worst shitheads a country has to offer, just sit in the parking lot of a prison at shift change." -Abraham lincoln Real quote

@DivAgent556 2 года назад

If you've played The Division, you know the Rikers don't mess around.

@squid1661 2 года назад

@18:10 For what it's worth, DeBlasio is no longer the mayor of New York (and wasn't when this video was posted). The current mayor, Eric Adams, is a former cop who sees mass imprisonment (and vegetarian diets) as the solution to all of NYC's problems. Rikers isn't going anywhere.

@marvindebot3264 2 года назад

Mass imprisonment IS NYC's problem , it's one of the causes of the crime rate.

@OJsLeftGlove 2 года назад

"Current mayor, Bill DeBlasio" "Dwindling crime rate" My guy may have slightly outdated information...

@staytuned2L337 2 года назад

🤣☠️

@anaryllis1240 2 года назад

For the first time ever I gave him a dislike for those comments. Crime is the worst its been in NY in 30+ years.

@joshrodgers9366 2 года назад

Simon has no clue at all what’s going on in American politics right now. He’s so uninformed he probably thinks Biden isn’t so bad when even the idiots that put him in power are starting to claim he’s incompetent lol

@squelchking4144 2 года назад

@@anaryllis1240 thanks, joe.

@DerptyDerptyDUM 2 года назад

I can only hear the word "RIKERS" in the voice of Detective Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order. DUN DUN

@karenlobosco6717 2 года назад

Hart Island is the City's Potters Field where the indigent and unclaimed are buried.

@andrepretorius4702 2 года назад

Imagine having to build the walls that will eventually lock you in.

@8alltime 2 года назад

It gets a lot worse than this. Look up the first Russian gulags. Prisoners would freeze to death one after another until the building was large enough to incarcerate and keep warm the people who made them.

@andrepretorius4702 2 года назад

@@8alltime None of those are good!

@pandorasbox4238 2 года назад

Suggestion: Beirut, Lebanon It is an insanely old city that has been through a LOT of things in it's 3000+ year history. It was getting blown the hell up in the 80's, conquered by Agrippa, and a whole lot of other things.

@Hammerhead547 2 года назад

You should tell the story of Canada's most feared and infamous jail: Toronto's Old Don Jail which operated for 140 years before being shut down in the 1990's. The jail was the site of a majority of the hangings carried out in canada and became locally famous for the large marble carving of father time with the words: "lose all hope ye who enter here" which hung over the inmate entrance. After the "old wing" was shut down in the early 80's many movies were filmed there including the 1990 Tom cruise hit Cocktail which was filmed in the main reception area of the old wing which was 2 floors below the old death row and gallows.

@Replicaate Год назад

I believe it was the site of the last execution in Canada as well.

@audiooddities9982 2 года назад

I've heard about Rikers for my whole life, through media, family etc, but I never knew the actual craziness of it..

@Leprechaun-qv6mo 2 года назад

Look up eastern state penitentiary in Philadelphia…. It was so f’d up there they made a horror video game in 2004 called The Suffering which took bits and pieces from rikers island, took the horrors that happened in philly and based the game off the coast of Baltimore…. Just goes to show how messed up Ny,Pa,md actually really is and was back in the day.

@beefgoat80 2 года назад

"You eyeballing me boy?" "No, my glasses broke and I can't see shit" Famous last words. He died of a "heart attack" at the ripe old age of 29.

@thefryingdutchman8795 2 года назад

I love waking up to a new a geographics video. Best way to start my day and brain!

@TheMr.George 2 года назад

My dad was a C.O. there from like 1985-2000 overnites doing intake at GMDC. Lots and lots of stories, still has all his old use of force reports

@evanb1470 2 года назад

I bailed out my ex wife's "new" boyfriend so he wouldn't go to Rikers. I wouldn't let my worst enemy go there.

@zo2dfarm923 2 года назад

Besides the trash island, this is how prison is anywhere in the US. The worst part by far is the noise. Everyone is a rapper in prison, as you can imagine.

@giantman261 2 года назад

America just likes to put their problems behind closed doors and out of the way, rather than fix them. Stop spending so much on the armed forces and put some of it towards helping the citizens of your country!

@garretth8224 2 года назад

Its a misappropriated or misallocated funds issue. Hell we spend more on healthcare than the military.

@MrGavski69 2 года назад

I have watched Simon for a few years now over 10+ shows and I love them very well put together and researched , I find them very informative but most of all I love this guys voice so much so I now hear him notating my everyday life 🤣👍 please keep up the fantastic work X

@thatoneblackguy22 2 года назад

My uncle did 20 years in rikers he had shank scars all over his body and would lose his shit if anyone approached him I often had to do his shopping cause he couldn’t have people standing behind him.

@jaytrace1006 2 года назад

I guess the message here is don’t break the law, and end up in Rikers.

@Dondokken1980s 2 года назад

What if you can't afford child support and alimony to an evil exwife wife cause you lost your job or got injured. Courts still lock people there. It's a corrupted world we live in

@dsnodgrass4843 2 года назад

If only that worked for the rich.

@jaytrace1006 2 года назад

Yeah, they seem to get away with a lot.

@miked3502 2 года назад

Having worked corrections for a few years adolescents come in with the mindset they were big men in juvie where respect for others is non existent

@danielolguin6495 2 года назад

I did 4 years a in maximum security federal prison and 3 years in a maximum security state prison. These places make you more ruthless and uncaring than anything else. And it's hard to turn off once you get out, I've been out 2 years now and I still struggle in public and trying to get back to normal

@phily309 2 года назад

I hear you brother.. keep the head up,my Last was 2 years got out in 2004 and haven't looked back,it can be done !!!!! best of luck for the future..

@danielolguin6495 2 года назад

@@phily309 yup, thanks man I appreciate you.missed too much of my son's life. We're good now and I got custody of him, a house, good job and all is well except my head. But I'm doing it. Last 7 months of parole and I'm straight. Had 3 years but final stretch is here, i aint looking back

@phily309 2 года назад

Gald to hear it brother,it's a tough road but if I can do it anyone can !! Missed out on my eldest girl growing up,still break's my heart but I've gotten a second chance with 2 small girls these days and bit by bit gaining a relationship with my eldest... You'll struggle my friend but remember.... what's normal, don't take on board what others think, look after those you love and those who love you, nothing else matters !!!!

@danielolguin6495 2 года назад

@@phily309 thanks man, I'll take all the advice I can get. Especially from someone who's been through it. The people i love are all that matters to me and I will take care of them the best I can.

@QueenetBowie 2 года назад

18:10 Bill DeBlasio is not the mayor of New York City currently, Eric Adams took office in January 2022, so those policies may change Secondly, you reference New York’s “dwindling crime rate” but New York has an increasing crime rate, it’s been increasing the last few years and overall crime is up 60% this year so far. It’s arguably one of the reasons Adams was elected (he’s a former NYPD officer) campaigning on a balanced criminal justice reform system. Rikers should be closed, but there were several errors at the end which kind of give a false view of the current situation in NYC.

@BrontidexX 2 года назад

This script is slightly dated, so you are correct!

@TheItalianTrash 2 года назад

If you're going to commit a felony, then I suggest planning ahead and doing it in one the various Scandinavian countries. The prisons offer all the modern amenities with the latest accommodations and even access to PlayStation 3s while being in a much calmer and safer atmosphere in order to properly "reform". They also feature some of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, but remember rooms are only available at a first come first serve basis so what are you waiting for?

@chaosmarklar Год назад

Rikers is not for felonies, it's a city jail and under a year sentences, average is under 4 months, felonies get sent to prison for years, not jail for a few months

@TheItalianTrash Год назад

@@chaosmarklar I am well aware that Rikers is a jail considering that I live in New York State. Rikers still ranks as more dangerous than the vast majority of maximum-security prisons.

@chaosmarklar Год назад

@GG Bianco that is mostly due to gangs, and they are separated from the general population, I've spent time there in the 80's, 90's and 2000's and honestly never had any problems, I've always gotten respect, and I'm not with any gang nor ever was, but who's gonna risk adding a month to their 3 month sentence by starting something

@TheItalianTrash Год назад

@@chaosmarklar Yup. I did 3 months in a backwoods county jail located in Catskill when I was punk ass 18-year-old in 1999. That was enough for me, and I got my act together and never went back.

@gregkamer3754 2 года назад

I had to laugh at the "dwindling crime rate" comment. NYC is experiencing their worst crime rate in the last 50 years.

@kalumprino8457 2 года назад

Honestly laughed out loud at that part.

@GrievousReborn 2 года назад

Probably emboldened by the talks of defunding the police

@Author.Noelle.Alexandria 2 года назад

@@GrievousReborn Defunding the police isn’t about getting rid of police. You heard Simon mention the rate of 40% for inmates with mental health issues? Defunding the police means taking funds given to police to beat those people and to instead use that money to fund people trained to deal with mental illness. The police shouldn’t get money to deal with people they shouldn’t be dealing with in the first place, yet necessary vital services aren’t getting funded because the police keep getting it all.

@jwenting 2 года назад

yeah, it was dwindling until deBlasio took over and gutted the police and criminal justice system.

@aaronx8006 2 года назад

No it’s not lol 😂 stop with the lies

@Misria12-14 2 года назад

My dad worked on rickers for 21 years!

@multiyapples 2 года назад

Rest In Peace to those that passed away.

@lizc6393 2 года назад

While I'll 2nd that sentiment, I feel that if there's an afterlife, it was probably a huge relief to leave that place.

@richardhoff1626 2 года назад

Yes, If only they had let others live in peace when they were on this earth.

@BCaldwell 2 года назад

I think it's hilarious that Simon reported the crime level has dropped in NYC towards the end of the video.... Your timing is impeccable Sir 😂

@BMWE90HQ 2 года назад

Yeah I was thinking “that’s a bold face lie”.

@duncancurtis1758 2 года назад

CSI, naturally.

@duncancurtis1758 2 года назад

Law n order SVU.

@BCaldwell 2 года назад

Cue the Who music!!!

@aaronx8006 2 года назад

@@BMWE90HQ it isn’t ..crime was worst before so don’t kid yourself

@redhotchilipapa5388 2 года назад

I’d have to check your posts, Simon, but I wonder if you’ve ever covered North Brother island and the gross history within its borders.

@BukkakeeNinja 2 года назад

The spike in incidents was likely due to the removal of the ability to isolate offender punitively or for safety purposes..

@chrissirvid5845 2 года назад

Always interesting, informative and entertaining 👍 team 👍

@lingeniero8122 2 года назад

I'm an engineer working on the fire protection systems for the new jails. I gotta say the new ones are pretty nice! (As much as a jail can be nice I guess haha)

@JM-qb2kd 2 года назад

Ur hilarious.

@lingeniero8122 2 года назад

@@JM-qb2kd What I meant is that they have added lots of things to address mental health, physical activity, and are accounting for dietary needs of people. But still, jail is jail you know? It could be a 5 star hotel but you're still forced to stay there.

@Eblis840 2 года назад

One of the cool new facilities proposed as Simon mentioned in the video would be in Chinatown... Definitely not a conflict of interest considering the spike in hate crimes against Asians due to covid... Im a jaded, cynical New Yorker aswell so my Sense of humor is also warped, you aren't to blame for this shit show tho, you're just doing honest work, stay up brother.😎🤙

@Eblis840 2 года назад

@@thentil not to mention 3 star Michelin dining... "your Kool aid and warm bologna sandwich is now served monsieur, Bon appetit!"

@garrettgoss2691 2 года назад

@@lingeniero8122 exactly. You can have the nicest cells or make it hell, but the punishment is having to stay there without the ability to do most things without being watched or something similar

@billsheehy1 2 года назад

Dwindling crime rate? What planet are you living on

@andrewbrinkworth1420 2 года назад

I use RU-vid premium and I love that I can put my phone down and just listen to his videos

@batticusmanacleas510 2 года назад

Due primarily to mental illness, I got chewed up by the legal system and spent my 20s in and out of jails and prisons. Other than psychological pain involved, the hardest thing was always asshole psychopath guards. Drunk with power and driven by their own mental problems. Prisons don't attract the best people to work there. Not saying that there isn't good people who work in corrections. But there are a lot of sadistic scumbags that should be inmates themselves. I'm 40 now and still trying to fix all the damage brought on by a broken and biased system that most people don't care to see fixed. They broke the law, after all.

@imnotracistbut-9559 2 года назад

It’s insane that basically everyone knows what you’ve described is pretty spot-on and yet it keeps happening like it’s not something that needs to be addressed and ideally reorganized altogether but at the end of the day most people don’t really care enough. Stay positive and remember that you’re a lot tougher than you might often think

@jordanharris2879 2 года назад

Rikers island isn’t a jail it’s a penitentiary. And Simon there is a difference

@19eightyforeisnow 2 года назад

No it's both simultaneously.

@passat24666 2 года назад

Go back to school and learn. Rikers is a island facility made up of 8 jails. A penitentiary are the prisons that are locate upstate like Sing Sing, Attica and Bedford. Jails are holding facility for non sentenced inmates until they can be sentenced to prison..

@ZebraGirl97 2 года назад

@@passat24666 or those sentenced to less than 1 year usually serve their sentences in jail rather than prison, as well.

@passat24666 2 года назад

@@ZebraGirl97 For NY state yes. Some other states have different rules. In NY any sentience that is giving for more than a Year and a Day you will be handed over to State department of corrections to serve your time from City department of corrections...

@ladykoiwolfe 2 года назад

Nice research even got the crackhead soup on there also known as prison crackers.

@justinsbeaver9010 2 года назад

Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician, who is serving as the 110th mayor of New York City.

@promiscuous5761 2 года назад

Thank you.

@sciencerscientifico310 2 года назад

Now if Rikers Island had been included on the show "Beyond Scared Straight" maybe many juveniles would think twice about committing crimes!

@hardlyquinn3747 2 года назад

Perhaps you could do a video on Hart Island?

@LMTDDS Год назад

Seems like an interesting place! Should turn it into a tourist attraction!

@maggiemae7539 11 месяцев назад

They turned Alcatraz into a tourist attraction. So maybe

@rustybottoms8859 2 года назад

Crime rate in NYC was up 60% in March from what it was in 21'. They better keep that place open alittle longer or make the new jail houses bigger than planned.

@chaosmarklar Год назад

When I was in rikers in the early 80's it was over run with rats, in the 90's abandoned and ferel cats were brought to the island, their population is growing and the rodents are no longer an issue, plus cats around outside seem to have a calming affect on both inmates and guards

@eaphantom9214 2 года назад

Herd a lot about this hell hole ⛓️🏢 Another channel called - The Infographics show - covered it and it has been referred to a few times in films and series - Batman being 1 of them - called Black Gate

@zch7491 2 года назад

Wow this place is wild

@zata1197 2 года назад

Sounds like one of the nicer parts of New York

@tonyarc9455 2 года назад

sounds good

@ek8710 2 года назад

"Dwindling crime rate" LMAO

@ChrisSeaB 2 года назад

Oh my God. I grew up in Williamsport, PA and we always called Ramen "Crack head" soup. When we moved away no else ever called it that and I still haven't heard anyone else called it that. So I just figured it was a Williamsport thing never knew that it was called that in NYC also. 🤣🤣🤣

@chaosmarklar Год назад

In the 1980's rikers Island was infested with rats, in the 90's the city relocated stray cats on the island and in the 2000's there were thousands of cats, which the guards and inmates both liked, some are people friendly, and no rat problem

@GrizzlyCompany 2 года назад

"Dwindling crime rate" the biggest lie of all.

@duncancurtis1758 2 года назад

These are their stories Bong bong.

@Cinnamon938 2 года назад

I thought the same thing when I heard it.

@aaronx8006 2 года назад

Crime was worst before so he isn’t wrong

@bishop51807 2 года назад

Crime was going down pre covid, the public fear factor however...

@BrontidexX 2 года назад

This script is admittedly dated! Though the dwidling crime rate also has to do with certain crimes that are no longer considered crimes- such as marijuana possession. Additionally, the reactions to many petty crimes no longer include detainment while awaiting trial. You are not incorrect, just thought I would clarify!

@EnclaveOfficer1776 2 года назад

“Dwindling crime rate” 😂😂😂

@TheeRomantic 2 года назад

Ppl complain about current prisons, complain the cost of new prisons, complain about being in jail (even though said criminals broke the law/s) and ppl complain when law enforcement are now softer on criminals cause ppl complained about the amount of ppl in prison. 😑

@fancyultrafresh3264 2 года назад

This…this is just Arkham isn’t it.

@MrWilberbeast1 2 года назад

What’s the difference between a shiv and shank?

@kylebailey7002 2 года назад

There the same thing

@theshadowman1398 2 года назад

US seems to be mostly known for exactly that, it’s revolting justice / prison system. That’s why I will never set foot in that country again. One officer has a bad day and your life is ruined

@jorenvanderark3567 2 года назад

Your life is ruined if the officer has a good day. Your life is over if the officer has a bad day.

@okjoe5561 2 года назад

Thanks. We have too many people like you here anyway.

@ladykoiwolfe 2 года назад

One of my exes was sent there with a toothache. They wouldn't do anything gor it. For a week he was writhing in pain from this damn tooth. After he finally got moved on he got the tooth removed. But the pain from that tooth is pretty much all he remembers of his time there.

@Eblis840 2 года назад

Sounds like he had a good time compared to other fun summer camp stories I've heard...

@Eblis840 2 года назад

@@thentil yeah maybe he should've committed insurance fruad and went to federal prison like a white collar gentleman.

@ladykoiwolfe 2 года назад

@@thentil absolutely! I mean he was a bit of an asshat.

@ladykoiwolfe 2 года назад

@@Eblis840 he wishes he had the money to do that.

@Author.Noelle.Alexandria 2 года назад

@@thentil People awaiting trial get sent there as well. This includes innocent people who can’t afford private attorneys. Keep in mind that not everyone in jail is guilty, and even those who are should (usually) be treated humanely. (People who fuck with kids can rot and be tortured for all I care.) If the punishment for stealing a candy car was losing your hand, would you say, “Well, shouldn’t have stolen that candy car,” or would you be sane and calling for such overly severe punishment to be abolished? And do you want punishment (keep in mind most of those in jails and other facilities for several years OR LESS), which hardens people, or do you want them rehabilitated so that, when they get out, they’re less likely to reoffend?

@pawprintz7166 2 года назад

It'd be interesting to see a video about Hart Island.

@ssherrierable 2 года назад

ME-thane… I love that stuff 😂

@MrDanChandler 2 года назад

This barely scratches the surface on the chaos and corruption that is Riker Island. There are entire zones of the jail system that guards don’t enter because the inmates broke out and formed gangs. The “bullpens” are all well over capacity, with inmates sleeping shoulder to shoulder like slaves on trade ships. All this is covered in an article from the New York Times, which added that a recent incident where a bus was stolen and driven into a gate to break it open was a typical incident for a day on the island.

@GrievousReborn 2 года назад

How inmates controlling a section of the jail corruption that one sounds like chaos

@bomt6259 2 года назад

I love you Simon!!

@techfixr2012 2 года назад

Hi Simon. I hope this helps your algorithm.

@StonedGames 2 года назад

Bing Bong!

@ggallinvevo84 2 года назад

Please do a video on hart island, that threw me off lmao

@bagaboiebailey 2 года назад

I was about to say new mayor dude but people already beat me to it

@parkerlynne 2 года назад

I only watch 3 genres of videos on RU-vid. True Crime, Beauty, and Simon Whistler.

@raymondwelsh6028 2 года назад

The place looks to good for the likes of the guests. They deserve no better.🇦🇺

@RCast-sc6fy 2 года назад

I’ve had 2 family members as CO’s on that island and even I’ve worked there. Yeah… it’s horrible

@coreym162 2 года назад

De Blasio is the former Mayor. Eric Adams is the current one. How was that not fact checked?

@darksoul479 2 года назад

I've been there. Winter is a lot better than the summer.

@thefryingdutchman8795 2 года назад

It's shithole and we're never going back.

@nicos.2414 2 года назад

You’ve been in the Prison?

@nicos.2414 2 года назад

Got any stories to tell?

@lizc6393 2 года назад

I quite honestly and literally don't even want to think about it. Jesus dude I hope you're doing better now, I would imagine it would cause PTSD in a lot of people. Meanwhile there are good ol' boys in the comments kvetching about paying taxes to provide "fire suppression and air conditioning" to "these criminals." I'd rather spend time with you than them.

@ihavediabetestoo 2 года назад

Inmates aren’t “cavity searched”.

@Dathansmith91 2 года назад

Any information on the music tracks that played during the video?

@CA-kp9lt 2 года назад

random but could you cover "The Lost and Mysterious City of Biringan"? cant find a decent video about it online

@chrisyanover1777 2 года назад

San Quinten is another fascinating and violent jails in America that would be interesting to cover. Especially thr history with Johnny Cash.

@pammmmm 2 года назад

Wasn’t Johnny cash in Folsom prison?

@jessejoyce1295 2 года назад

America, land of the free... we not only have the most incarcerated people in the world (total and per capita), but we are also the most free country in the world (as we are frequently reminded). Take that, Norway, we're number one and we have the recidivism rate to prove it

@19eightyforeisnow 2 года назад

China has the most incarcerated people's period d, than Iraq and north Korea if your going off of per capita. USA is right up there though

@redlee1139 2 года назад

Check out McNeil island in Washington state its an interesting prison had a dairy farm at one point probably still does I only know about this place bc my grandfather ran the dairy farm

@katrina3560 2 года назад

Great suggestion!

@SkankHunt007 2 года назад

Crime rate at an all time high and they decide to down size. LOL

@foxtailedcritter 2 года назад

I've said this before if you treat prisoners like monsters you will get one when released. Places like USA, UK and Australia treat prisoners badly and surprise surprise they reoffend when they get out compared to places like Switzerland, Iceland and Netherlands. I know because I spend 3 years in an Australian jail for non violant drug offence I came out not being able to get a job, a record and a better criminal. If I was in a place that actually help rehabilitate me then I would be a productive citizen now you just got a pissed off monster.

@sdrake8355 Год назад

If you’re genuinely comparing a UK prison to a U.S. “For profit” prison, you’re off your rocker mate. 😂

@TheEvilCommenter 2 года назад

Good video 👍

@pookispalaceoflove6518 2 года назад

At least watch it first you fool

@twocvbloke 2 года назад

Sounds like a lovely place for a long-term holiday for boris johnson... :P

@Arc115YT 2 года назад

To be honest, this isn't even the worst american jail I've ever heard of. When my brother was incarcerated, one of the jails he was kept at was made out of an old cargo ship. He compared it to a dungeon. There was no electric light, no climate control, no recreation, not even any corrections officers. Just concrete and metal and a tiny cell for him and dozens of other inmates. If there was an emergency, they had an intercom that they could use to call someone from a nearby facility. As for nourishment, they were fed beans twice a day. Some of the jails in the US have absolutely appallingly illegal conditions.

@ilyavasilevskiy8334 2 года назад

I don’t understand why it is made to look so bad? Every prison outside of US would wish to have these conditions. I am Ukrainian and the best prison we have is worse than the worst US prison. That is why we don’t have so many criminals they don’t want to go to jail!

@charliechan8063 2 года назад

I wonder how Simon pronounces mEth lol MEthane lol

@MrDoYouKnowMe2211 2 года назад

Trust the Awesomeness.

@Author.Noelle.Alexandria 2 года назад

Rikers is a great example of for-profit jails at work. It’s very true that soft criminals usually come out hardcore, even those there for minor offenses. So that means more trouble. And that means more money for investors. For-profit jails across the US need to be declared unconstitutional.

@jwenting 2 года назад

and don't forget that the inmates essentially provide slave labour for the prison operators. You may call it "rehabilitation through labour" but it's not much different from the way the Chinese use their prison inmates to run factories producing cheap consumer goods, or how the Soviets used the Gulag system to mine gold and lead, or the Germans using their concentration camp inmates to run their factories and mines.

@19eightyforeisnow 2 года назад

It's not a for profit jail, it's owned and run by the city of NY, It's more an example of a racist and classist power dynamic.

@richardhoff1626 2 года назад

Sadly Noelle, you have been drinking gin for breakfast instead of getting a little knowledge before you post. Rikers is not a "For Profit" jail or anything close. I think the solution is that you and your friends make some brownies and cookies and head over to Rikers. You can all sing Kumbaya together and the world will be safe.

@rhynosouris710 2 года назад

Where exactly does the US Constitution ban for-profit jails? The Commerce Clause?

@jwenting 2 года назад

@@rhynosouris710 nobody says it does. Many people say it probably should.

@ah6559 2 года назад

Soooo…it was Ryckens Island…and now called Rikers Island? Did Simon say how / why that occurred and I missed it? Seems like something worth a talking point

@kempoficht 2 года назад

Quite common to dis euro a name in america. Since ryckens was dutch and soled to a american its porb here why it became rikers

@ah6559 2 года назад

@@kempoficht that’s kinda what I assumed as the last name on my birth certificate is only 2 generations old due to Ellis island. Nevertheless, it sparked a curiosity.

@BrontidexX 2 года назад

This was included in a "cut" section to save some time. The name became more "Americanized". Ryken's family owned the island until 1884 and it was purchased by the city, so there was quite a bit of time for the origional family name to evolve. :)

@Moose6340 Год назад

Because the NYC area was originally explored and settled by the Dutch, there are a ton of Dutch names and terms there that have been Anglicized. Some of the waterways are called "kills" (Kill van Kull, Arthur Kill, Fresh Kills) which is a corruption of a 17th-century Dutch word. Same thing with Hell Gate.

@shellcraigmiles5253 2 года назад

It's been so long since I've seen you, Simon! Hope all is well

@deafmusician2 2 года назад

"dwindling crime rate".... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@szlava3641 2 года назад

As a New Yorker, hearing “dwindling crime rate” makes me laugh out loud.

@christianwestling2019 2 года назад

Dwindeling crime rate? In New York City?! You usually make great videos, Simon. But this was a blatant error.

@BrontidexX 2 года назад

There have been reforms in the things that are considered crime and especially in what requires jailing, so technically it is correct. The new jail system will have less cells with this in mind. Ultimately, there will still be both major and petty crime, but jails in NYC will no longer detain individuals over many of the petty crimes before trial. Even the changes in the reaction to marijuana possession make a big difference in the overall crime rate. The impact of major crimes, however, may not have been affected by these changes. Felonists gunna felony.