New York City's jail for women, at 19-19 Hazen Street on Rikers Island. It opened in June 1988 as an 800-bed facility for female detainees and sentenced women, with modular housing added later and a 25-bed baby nursery, and it shares its street address with a separate command known as RESH.
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
Female, with a separate male command sharing the same street address
Capacity
800 beds at opening, with modular housing added afterwards
Custody Levels
Female detainees and sentenced women
Operator
New York City Department of Correction
Address
19-19 Hazen Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11370
Phone
311
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Free Inmate Search ↗One address, two commands, and a result that tells you which of them you are dealing with.
View ArticleNo application and no approved-visitor list, but your surname decides the day.
View ArticleJPay, Western Union with two codes, or a cashier window that charges nothing.
View ArticleThe city made them free, and left a rolling allowance in place of a bill.
View ArticleFifteen photographs, four by six, and no scanning contractor anywhere in the system.
View ArticleNobody applies to visit in New York City, and there is no approved-visitor list to get on to. What there is instead is a schedule that alternates by the first letter of the surname, a one hour cap on every visit, and a limit of two adults and one lap child in a group. Detained people may be visited three times a week and sentenced people twice.
See the full breakdownWestern Union needs two codes rather than one, city code NYCITYDOC and state code NY, and JPay handles the online route. The cheapest option is a Department of Correction cashier window, which charges no fee at all, and cash handed over during a visit is available the next day. A commissary deposit is not the same transaction as posting bail.
See the full breakdownThe envelope needs her full name, her Book and Case number and the full name and address of this jail, and the jail name on that line is doing real work because a separate command shares the street address. Nothing is scanned or digitised in this system, so the photographs you post arrive as photographs, capped at fifteen and at four by six inches.
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It is the one the Department of Correction identifies as its facility for female detainees and sentenced women in custody. The department's earlier women's jail, the Correctional Institution for Women, became a men's detention centre when this building opened in 1988 and closed altogether in 2018.
Inmate SearchRose M. Singer Center, 19-19 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 Book and Case number, and the full name and address of the jail holding the person right now, which is why the jail name on the line matters as much as the number.
Mail & PhotosBecause a separate command called RESH operates at the same address. The department's facilities page describes RESH as housing male detainees in restrictive housing. The address is shared, the command is not, and a lookup result naming RESH is a different thing from a result naming the Rose M. Singer Center.
Inmate SearchNot on its own. The lookup itself carries a notice saying RESH currently houses both people in restrictive housing and general population, and that people in RESH general population are not subject to restrictive status. The older facilities page has not caught up with that notice, so read the one on the lookup.
Inmate SearchThe department records a 25-bed baby nursery at this facility, and it dates its first nursery to 1985. Those two dates sit oddly together, since this building opened in June 1988, and the department publishes nothing reconciling them. It also publishes no current eligibility rules or occupancy figures, so the nursery is confirmed to exist and little beyond that is confirmable.
VisitationIt opened as an 800-bed facility and the department says modular housing was added afterwards, without saying how much. So 800 is the published figure for the original building rather than the current capacity, and no current population count is published for this jail.
Inmate SearchThe department publishes no phone number for any individual jail on Rikers Island, this one included. Its facilities page lists addresses only, and general Department of Correction enquiries go through 311. A direct line quoted for this building somewhere else 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, which is why those four are covered on the Rikers Island guide rather than repeated here. What is particular to this building is who it holds, the command sharing its address, and the history behind the name.
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