In the middle of New York City's East River, between Queens and the Bronx, is an island.

An island built out of landfill and street trash that now sprawls more than 400 acres.

Some people call it torture island. Other people say it's

gladiator school. A few years ago, protesters out front had a different name for this island.

It called Rikers Island the Abu Ghraib of New York. And that's what it is. It's a torture chamber.

This is where they murder people.

They brutalize people. This is hard.

Rikers Island is home to thousands of inmates. The press has tallied up horror stories about life inside.

In the last decade, more than a dozen deaths Sunreikers may have been linked to inadequate medical treatment. Last year, an inmate said she was

raped by guards. There's also only one road leading on and off the island.

One road for visitors and workers and delivery vans and protesters.

Over the last five years, protesters have laid down in the middle of that road, blocking the street.

They've stood on the corner, giving speeches about revolution.

This terror must stop.

And there's a way to stop it.

And they've always had one persistent request.

Shut it down.

Shut it down.

Shut Rikers down.

And the thing is, this protest, it seems to have worked. We walked around Rikers down. And the thing is, this protest, it seems to have worked.

Rikers Island is a stain on New York City. Rikers Island should have been closed decades ago.

And many of the people on Rikers Island never should be there to begin with.

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