Little known even to New Yorkers, a floating prison barge sits off the shore of Hunts Point in the Bronx. In the late 1980s, New York City jails and prisons were filling past capacity and there was ...
NEW YORK — Kenneth Williams spent his whole life in Brooklyn, but it wasn't until a night in 2018 when he crossed a narrow footbridge in shackles, that he learned about New York City’s last floating ...
After more than three decades, New York City's "floating jail" in the East River is finally set to close. The Department of Correction says the Vernon C. Bain Center will close in October. Close to ...
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New York City's "floating jail" — which was supposed to be temporary when it opened in the East River three decades ago — is finally set to shutter. The Vernon C. Bain Center – nicknamed “the Boat” – ...
An inmate who escaped from the city’s floating jail in a daring overnight escapade which featured a knotted rope dangling from his cell window was captured Saturday afternoon after an intense, ...
NEW YORK — On a mid-September day in 2008, Marvin Mayfield, a lifelong resident of the Bronx, discovered a part of the borough he had never seen. The revelation came while he was being taken off a ...
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