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 ...

Even before it was a prison, Rikers Island was home to crooks. Magistrate Richard Riker, owner of the island in the early 1800s, was a descendant of the German-Dutch von Rycken family, which had he… ...

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 ...

Brooklyn gangster who busted out of Rikers Island with the help of an Eastern European crime syndicate was sentenced to 21 months in prison on a federal charge related to the escape, authorities sa… ...

1935 — The city opens a new penitentiary on Rikers Island built using inmate labor. The island was envisioned as self-sustaining, with inmates putting in 8-hour days farming, making clothing,… ...

Just last week, Stephen Khadu, 24, died while being held at the Vernon C. Bain prison barge, a dystopic multistory boat docked north of Rikers Island.

On Jan. 22, 1992, the Vernon C. Bain barge, named for a Rikers Island warden who died in a car accident, sailed into New York Harbor joining a fleet of four other floating jails.

Find out how this barge became a NYC Correctional facility. ... As part of the plan to close Rikers Island passed by New York City Council in 2019, the Vernon C. Bain Center would also be closed.

Rikers Island was reclaimed land via barge fed landfill operations and grew to it current size over the span of six decades. At one of the first mappings of Rikers in 1885, ...

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 ...