The man who died was being held at the Vernon C. Bain Center, a floating jail barge docked just north of Rikers Island.
Source: New York Times
Crisis at Rikers and N.Y.C Jails Grows With 12th Death in Custody
Published in Correction Department (NYC), Deaths (Fatalities), Prisons and Prisoners and Rikers Island Prison Complex
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