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| Rikers Island Will Get Prison Bardge |
| By yournabe.com |
| Published: 08/20/2010 |
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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 airspace over the parking lot next to where the barge is docked, as had originally been planned. The 870-bed Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center is a barge docked off the end of Halleck Street in the East River. The Department of Corrections announced on Wednesday, August 11 that it will move the facility from Hunts Point to Rikers Island as part of a sweeping plan to “right size” the city’s jail system, a term signifying that there will be renovations, closings and building of a number of properties. Corrections will also build a new 1,500 bed facility on Rikers Island. Read More. |
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