The man leaped into the water about 11:40 a.m. from a fenced rooftop recreation yard at the Vernon C. Bain Center, the huge jail barge docked near Halleck St. in Hunt’s Point. “It’s a very ...

Sitting behind 15ft metal fencing and two sets of guarded gates, the 222 tiny cabins on the Home Office’s first asylum seeker barge await the imminent arrival of their occupants. The three-level ...

The controversial 800-bed prison barge, named the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, arrived in New York. New York state closed down the last floating United States prison ship this week, ...

This is the Bibby Stockholm, a bleak floating accommodation block that the British government is renting to house hundreds of asylum seekers. The 222-cabin barge is moored on the southern coast of ...

Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, has previously called the barge a “quasi-prison”, but aid authorities were working to “mitigate concerns as far as possible”.

The UK is set to start housing hundreds of asylum seekers in a barge moored on the Dorset coast. The barge looks eerily like a floating prison, with bleak, narrow corridors and cramped rooms ...

In the damp December cold, a blue bus stops near Weymouth town centre in southwest England. A few men get off, relieved to be spending a few hours away from what they call their "prison" -- a barge ...