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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. The barge was anchored off the Bronx's southern shore, across from Rikers Island, near Hunts Point.
Ludlow Street Jail; Manhattan Detention Complex; Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (may reopen) New York Women's House of Detention; Queens Detention Complex; Raymond Street Jail; Spofford Juvenile Center; Sugar house prisons (New York) Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center; Walter B. Keane
Built in the 1950s, the jail closed in 2003 due to a declining inmate population. It reopened in 2012 after renovations with 544 staff. [2] In 2017, New York City committed to closing the jails on Rikers Island and creating a network of modern borough-based jails instead.
MDC Brooklyn occupies land that was originally part of Bush Terminal (now Industry City), a historic intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex. [3] The Federal Bureau of Prisons initially proposed converting two buildings at Industry City into a federal jail in 1988, due to overcrowding at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York. [4]
The Federal Correctional Complex, Yazoo City (FCC Yazoo City) is a United States federal prison complex for male offenders in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi. [1] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons , a division of the United States Department of Justice and is located 36 miles (58 km) north of Jackson, Mississippi .
In 2023, the detention center agreed to settle a $10 million lawsuit with inmates who described harsh conditions at the facility during the frigid polar vortex of 2019, according to The New York ...
It is the only federal jail in New York City. ... has about 1,121 total inmates, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. There are also outdoor recreation facilities, a medical unit with ...
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said the two men should not be approached and anyone who sees them should call 911 or the sheriff's office. Collins was being held for charges out of Copiah ...