A former jail on a South Bronx barge is slated to be dismantled to make way for the planned Hunts Point Marine Terminal.

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, alongside the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and NYC Department of Correction ...

After NYC Department of Correction (DOC) confirmed on Saturday, June 21, that two additional people have died on or in ...

A State Supreme Court judge has indefinitely barred Mayor Eric Adams from allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement from reopening an office on Rikers Island. In a scathing decision published ...

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 ...

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 area ...

Judge appoints remediation manager to run NYC's Rikers Island jail complex 03:02. After years of litigation, a federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report ...

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 ...

One solution floated: a dilapidated barge situated off Rikers Island in New York. The 625-foot long and five-story high Vernon C Bain Center had echoes of the Bibby Stockholm scheme the Home ...

The controversial 800-bed prison barge, named the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, arrived in New York more than three decades ago as a way to ease the overcrowding at Rikers Island.