A jail on Rikers Island at 16-00 Hazen Street, opened in June 1985 and built in under 15 months. The Department of Correction records both dormitory and cell housing here, houses male adults, and named the building for its second Warden.
City
East Elmhurst
County
Bronx, with an East Elmhurst, Queens mailing address
State
NY
Facility Type
City jail, one of the jails in the Rikers Island complex
Gender
Male adults
Operator
New York City Department of Correction
Address
16-00 Hazen Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11370
Phone
311
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Otis Bantum Correctional Center, 16-00 Hazen Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11370, with the person's full name and Book and Case number on the envelope. The department asks for the name, the number and the full name and address of the jail the person is in, and on this street the jail name is what stops an envelope landing six doors away.
Mail & PhotosNo, and this is the mistake worth guarding against here. West Facility is 16-06 Hazen Street and is a separate jail with its own population, including the Department of Correction's Communicable Disease Unit. Everything else in the two addresses is identical, so the two digits at the end are doing all the work.
Mail & PhotosThe department records only that the jail was named for its second Warden. It publishes no biography and no further detail, so that single line is the whole of the official account. We would rather print that than fill the gap from somewhere the department did not put it.
Inmate SearchThe department publishes no phone number for any individual jail on Rikers Island. Its facilities page carries addresses and nothing else, and general Department of Correction enquiries go through 311. Any direct line quoted for this building elsewhere did not come from the department.
Phone CallsNot in anything the department publishes. Visiting, mail, money and phone calls run on one citywide set of rules, so those four are covered in depth on the Rikers Island guide rather than repeated on this page. What belongs to this building is its address, its housing and its history.
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