via G Captain. There are currently somewhere around 800 prisoners floating on the East River, housed inside of the Vernon C. Bain jail barge (named for a warden who died in a car accident).

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 ...

It took 15 years and may take a couple more, but the prison barge docked at the end of the Hunts Point peninsula will be moved to Rikers Island.In addition, no new jail will be built in the airspac… ...

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 ...

Authorities are searching for a man they say escaped from a jail barge floating near the Hunts Point section of the Bronx early Saturday.. Police say the man believed to be missing, David ...

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”.

NEW YORK (WPIX) — Authorities in New York are searching for a prisoner who escaped a prison barge, officials confirmed on Saturday. According to WPIX, David Mordukhaev, 30, escaped a New York ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) — Authorities in New York are searching for a prisoner who escaped a prison barge, officials confirmed on Saturday. According to WPIX, David Mordukhaev, 30, escaped a New York ...