Anna Delvey: How I SURVIVED Rikers Island & Prison

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Anna Delvey sits down with Ian Bick and finally tells the part of her story the world hasn’t heard, not the fake heiress headlines, but the arrest, LA County jail, surviving Rikers Island, doing time in New York state prison, and ending up in an ICE detention center, breaking down the everyday survival, politics, fear, and pressure of prison life that no Netflix series ever showed. _____________________________________________ #IanBick #AnnaDelvey #LockedIn #RikersIsland #PrisonLife #ICEDetention #TrueCrime #prisonstories _____________________________________________ Thank you to AVA & FACTOR for sponsoring this episode: AVA: Take control of your credit today. Download the Ava app and when you join using my promo code LOCKEDIN, you’ll get 20% off your first year—monthly or annual, your choice. _____________________________________________ FACTOR: Head to https://factormeals.com/lockedin50off and use code lockedin50off to get 50% off your first Factor box PLUS free breakfast for 1 year. Offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto-renewing subscription purchase. Make healthier eating easy with Factor. _____________________________________________ Connect with Anna Delvey: https://www.instagram.com/theannadelvey/?hl=en _____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ _____________________________________________ Shop Locked In Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Why I’m Skipping The Fake Heiress Story 01:00 The Day My Life Changed: Arrested In LA 03:00 Inside LA County Jail: Processing Shock 05:30 First Night Locked Up & Meeting My Cellmates 07:00 The Phone Call That Made It Real 09:00 Shackled & Flown To New York: Arraignment 12:00 Jail Food Hacks & How I Survived Inside 14:00 Breaking Down Physically & Mentally In Jail 18:00 Welcome To Rikers: Intake, Strip Search, Reality 22:00 Rikers Dorm Life & Dangerous Cell Politics 25:00 Commissary, Currency & The Jail Hustle 29:00 Facing Trial: The Biggest Decision Of My Life 32:00 Court, Cameras & Becoming A Headline 37:00 Trial, Verdict & Hearing My Sentence 42:00 From Rikers To Prison: Landing In Bedford/Albion 46:00 Prison Jobs, Food & The Social Hierarchy 50:00 Adapting To Prison Fashion & Daily Routine 54:00 Prison Art, Hustles & Becoming Self-Sufficient 59:00 Parole, Release Day & A New Nightmare: Immigration 01:04:00 ICE Detention: No End In Sight 01:09:00 From Inmate To Public Figure: TV, Docs & Fame 01:13:00 House Arrest, Curfews & Life After Prison 01:18:00 Finding Redemption & A New Purpose 01:23:00 What Prison Taught Me & Why Reform Matters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I really hated the first time when they took me to court,
0:04.0	like being on that bus,
0:07.0	and it cuffed me to like this huge woman.
0:10.0	And I was like a double person, like a little cell.
0:15.0	And I felt so close to phobic.
0:17.0	I got better then.
0:18.0	But that first time, I thought I was going to lose my mind.
0:22.2	Anna Delvey sits down with me and we skip the fake era story that the Netflix series
0:26.9	Inventing Anna and other podcasts and the media already covered.
0:30.6	Instead, we jump straight into her arrest and what actually happened next, L.A. County
0:35.2	Jail, Rikers Island, New York State Prison, and an ICE detention
0:39.3	center. You're going to hear how she fought her case going to trial. What everyday survival
0:44.0	really looked like on the inside, from her prison jobs to her favorite meals, sell politics
0:49.3	and interactions with other inmates and guards, all the stuff the public never got to see.
0:57.4	So tell us about that day you got arrested, what that was like where you were.
1:02.5	I was arrested in L.A. They picked me up on a warrant from New York. So I was never had any charges
1:08.8	in California. But the girl, whatever, whoever called herself, my friend, Rachel, she basically cooperated with the police to get me arrested from Los Angeles, even though I was never like running from the authorities.
1:25.5	I did not even know, like I had those charges pending. so there's nothing for me to, like, run from. And, yeah, they, like, showed up where I was at, and they were like, well, there's like, are you, Elizabeth or something? I'm like, no, I was like, what's the name? It was like, I'm Anna. I was like, well, we have a warrant for your rest from New York. And it was just one line. And it was like, well, we don't know what's going on. We're just here to pick you up on behalf of New York. And they really don't really tell you much. There's literally like, oh, the charges for whatever X, Y, Z amount of dollars. They don't, like, tell you what you're charged with.
2:01.6	They're just, like, do you want to waive the extradition?
2:06.8	And, like, so you don't fight it.
2:08.6	And they have, I think, 30 days.
2:11.7	New York has 30 days to come pick you up.
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