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.

2023年11月1日 · Docked in the shallows off an industrial edge of the South Bronx, the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center is a five-story jail barge that stretches the length of two football fields, resembling...

2023年10月31日 · Detainees and advocates have long regarded the boat as a grim vestige of mass incarceration, an enduring symbol of the city’s failures to reform dangerous jails that exist on the periphery of New York, largely out of sight of most residents and tourists.

2022年9月30日 · VCBC was constructed in 1992 as a makeshift jail floating just off Hunts Point in the Bronx. It was intended as a stopgap solution to alleviate overcrowding on Rikers Island, as the city’s jail population had soared to 22,000 people at the height of the War on Drugs.

Vernon C. Bain Center is located in the Bronx New York. This jail serves as the intake and processing facility for the Bronx. Built on a barge in New Orleans, Vernon C. Bain Center is literally a floating prison, and currently the only ship still in use by the Department of Correction.

2023年10月31日 · Docked in the shallows off an industrial edge of the South Bronx, the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center is a five-story jail barge that stretches the length of two football fields, resembling a container ship stacked with cargo.

2025年2月23日 · VCBC is also known as the Vernon C. Bain Maritime Facility and is a 5-story, 800-bed jail barge used to hold inmates for the New York City Department of Corrections. The barge is anchored off the Bronx's southern shore, near Hunts Point.

2023年10月31日 · Docked in the shallows off an industrial edge of the South Bronx, the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center is a five-story jail barge that stretches the length of two football fields, resembling...

2023年9月6日 · The barge off Hunts Point in the Bronx — across from Rikers Island — was built in 1989 and opened in 1992 as a temporary fix to ease Rikers’ soaring jail population during the height of the ...

2023年11月2日 · Three decades later, the 800-bed lockup—the last operating prison ship in the United States—is finally closing down, the AP reports. The ship will be fully vacated by the end of this week,...