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31 paź 2023 · America's last functional prison ship, New York's Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, is closing. The facility was introduced in 1992 as a remedy for overcrowding at Rikers Island. The center...
31 paź 2023 · The last of an armada of floating jails used by New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Vernon C. Bain sits across the river from Rikers Island, between a wastewater treatment plant and a wholesale fish market.
The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center (VCBC; also known as the Vernon C. Bain Maritime Facility [2] and nicknamed "The Boat" [3]) was an 800-bed jail barge used to hold inmates for the New York City Department of Corrections.
13 gru 2018 · Take an exclusive look inside the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a towering structure in Brooklyn that marks the burial site of thousands of Revolutionary War prisoners.
31 paź 2023 · The last of an armada of floating jails used by New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Vernon C. Bain sits across the river from Rikers Island, between a wastewater treatment...
31 paź 2023 · Three decades later, the 800-bed lockup – believed to be the last operating prison ship in the United States — is finally closing down. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
18 lis 2019 · Discover Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Brooklyn, New York: This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.
