Inmates Who Can't Make Bail...

Inmates Who Can't Make Bail Face Stark Options

via Think Outside the Cage by Pamela Clifton and Christie Donner on 1/23/10

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On the East River just across from Rikers Island sits a barge officially called the Vernon C. Bain Center. But every judge, layer and inmate in New York knows it as The Boat — a giant, floating jail docked in the Bronx.
Sometimes when the wind blows, you can feel it list just a little.
It is here that I first meet Shadu Green in June 2009. He is locked in a day room, still

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