Source: Spencer Platt / Getty Rikers Island has been an infamous institution in New York City for decades now. It has been the subject of public scrutiny, rap lyrics, social justice movements, and most notably, the prison where Korey Wise, one of the Exonerated Five, was sent to at just 16 years old. The conditions are deplorable, the inmates are violent, and the correctional officers who run the facility aren't much better than the prisoners they are paid to police.