NYC casts away floating jail, scorned by critics as 'modern-day slave ship'

04.11.2025    Gothamist    3 views
NYC casts away floating jail, scorned by critics as 'modern-day slave ship'

The city's floating jail was shipped away on Monday For three decades the Vernon C Bain Correctional Center was moored to the banks of Hunts Point serving as an overflow facility for Rikers Island more

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