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New York City's floating dungeon—a towering symbol of our deadly municipal carceral system that has sat off the Bronx coast for more than 33 years—will soon be turned into scrap metal.
Two years after the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center was decommissioned in October 2023, with all its remaining passengers moved to Rikers Island, the City announced Wednesday morning that it has sold the barge to Louisiana Scrap Metal for $1.5 million. At the end of this fall, four tugboats will drag it down the east coast.