America's last functional prison ship, New York's Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, is closing. The facility was introduced in 1992 as a remedy for overcrowding at Rikers Island. The center has been ...

NEW YORK — Kenneth Williams spent his whole life in Brooklyn, but it wasn't until a night in 2018 when he crossed a narrow footbridge in shackles, that he learned about New York City’s last floating ...

Kenneth Williams spent his whole life in Brooklyn, but it wasn't until a night in 2018 when he crossed a narrow footbridge in shackles that he learned about New York City’s last floating jail. He ...

There is no better way to while away five-to-life than with a good book. Gandhi in his autobiography wrote that he did his best studying in the pokey. It's no surprise that books are a big deal in the ...