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A former jail on a South Bronx barge is slated to be dismantled to make way for the planned Hunts Point Marine Terminal.
Rikers Island is set to close in he coming years and to be replaced by the opening of new borough-based jails. The Bronx County jail is due to open on the grounds of the former Lincoln Hospital and ...
Separately, NYC Department of Correction (DOC) recently announced that two additional people died on or in transit to Rikers island on the same day, June 20. Norwood News previously published an op-ed ...
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 ...
Built by Avondale Shipyard in Louisiana, the 625' Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center was opened in 1992 to relieve overcrowding at Rikers Island. The 800-bed jail barge, nicknamed "The Boat," has been ...
The barge, located across from Rikers Island, had been marred by controversy at points during its more than 30-year history.
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 ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A federal judge Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run by an official who reports directly to the court. In the ...
Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. At least 38 people have died since New York City Mayor Eric Adams assumed office in 2022.
The capacity of the four borough-based jails intended to replace Rikers Island has grown to 4,160 from the initial 3,300 beds, but even that still falls far short of the roughly 6,500 people who were ...
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 ...