The jail barge, officially called the Vernon C. Bain Center, was a relic of the crack cocaine era. It was notorious even ...

A Rikers Island detainee who died in February had 121 pills and multiple synthetic drugs in his cell, according to a new city ...

As of Nov. 3, the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center in Hunts Point — better known as the Rikers Island jail barge — is gone ...

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.

With the mayoral elections coming up, it's important that we seek out representatives who will do right by their constituents ...

The notorious floating jail complex off Rikers Island known as “The Boat” is being moved south to be turned into scrap metal.

The Board of Correction reported that, in some of the cases, medical staff were not immediately notified, cell doors were not secure, officers inexplicably wandered off post or did not conduct ...

A false positive test misidentifying baking soda as a mixture of fentanyl and horse tranquilizer is what landed a ...

Cuomo had recently called for the jail to be shut down, and his chief rivals in the race wasted no time criticizing his ...

As early voting begins in New York City’s mayoral election, the race comes down to this: whether voters want law and order in ...

A former correction officer at Rikers Island is facing years in prison after she was criminally charged with filing ...

"The next mayor’s commitment to public safety shouldn’t be measured by how many people they jail, but by how they prevent ...