Ryker's Island

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For the real-world prison, see Rikers Island

Ryker's Island is a fictional comic book maximum security prison located in the New York City of Marvel Comics' Marvel Universe. It is a counterpart to the real-world New York prison Rikers Island and first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #4, although its name was not given in a story until some years later. Apart from its conventional facilities for holding non-powered criminals, it also has its own specialized containment facilities for imprisoning superhuman convicts known as the Raft, which first appeared in Alias #26. However, on many occasions, "super"-criminals who rely on equipment for their powers (such as the Vulture or the Shocker) have been imprisoned in conventional cells, separated from their special paraphernalia. In New Avengers #1 (written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by David Finch), The Raft was the setting of a large scale breakout in which several supervillains escaped from captivity.

Previous inmates include Sandman, The Punisher, Jigsaw, Bullseye, Kingpin, and Daredevil (Daredevil vol. 2 #80).

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• The Raft
  
• List of correctional facilities in comics
• Vault (comics)
• Negative Zone Prison Alpha