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

A jail barge pushing down the bridge.

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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