The barge off Hunts Point in the Bronx — across from Rikers Island — was built in 1989 and opened in 1992 as a temporary fix to ease Rikers’ soaring jail population during the height of the ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center barge in Hunts Point—which previously housed overflow population from Rikers Island jails—will be removed, and the ...

Bronx jail inmate hospitalized after jumping into East River 00:25. NEW YORK -- The NYPD responded to a near-drowning Tuesday afternoon in the waters between Rikers Island and the Bronx.. It ...

The barge, located across from Rikers Island, had been marred by controversy at points during its more than 30-year history. At various times since the ship was brought to the Bronx waterway in ...

It is unclear whether or not the city is on course to shut Rikers Island down in four years as scheduled. However, the city does plan to shutter the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, an 800-bed ...

The city officially delayed the plan to close Rikers Island and build new jails until 2027. November 2020. New York City Department of Correction officials announced the city would shut down the ...

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New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has been troubled by years of neglect and now has spiraled into turmoil during the coronavirus pandemic. By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Arts Aug 01 ...

The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center is a five-story jail barge docked in the shallows off ... most of the roughly 500 people incarcerated on the ship will be transferred to Rikers Island, ...