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Prison Ships Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks Faculty Scholarship Shepard Broad College of Law Fall 2021 Prison Ships Robert Jarvis Nova Southeastern University - Shepard Broad College of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/law_facarticles Part of the Law Commons NSUWorks Citation Robert Jarvis, Prison Ships, 10 Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies 281 (2021), Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/law_facarticles/444 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Shepard Broad College of Law at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Birmingham City School of Law BritishBritish JoJournalurnal ofof British Journal of American Legal Studies | Volume 10 Issue 2 10 Issue Legal Studies | Volume British Journal of American British Journal of American Legal Studies | Volume 7 Issue 1 7 Issue Legal Studies | Volume British Journal of American AmericanAmerican LegalLegal StudiesStudies VolumeVolume 107 Issue Issue 1 2 FallSpring 2021 2018 ARTICLES ARTICLES Founding-Era Socialism: The Original Meaning of the Constitution’s Postal Clause Robert G. Natelson Marital Cakes and Conscientious Promises G. P. Marcar Toward Natural Born Derivative Citizenship John Vlahoplus RuleFelix by Frankfurter the Few in and the theFederalist Law Papers: An Examination Carl M. FeliceThomas IV Halper of the Aristocratic Preference of Publius Fundamental Rights in Early American Case Law: 1789-1859 Nicholas P. Zinos U.S.-UK FTA Negotiations: A Primer on Labor Agenda Ronald C. Brown The Holmes Truth: Toward a Pragmatic, Holmes-Influenced Conceptualization Prisonof the NatureShips of Truth Robert M.Jared Jarvis Schroeder ToActs Delegate of State, or State Redelegate: Immunity, Is Thatand Judicialthe Question? Review in the United States Thomas HalperZia Akthar BRITISH JOURNAL OF AMERICAN LEGAL STUDIES BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL THE CURZON BUILDING, 4 CARDIGAN STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B4 7BD, UNITED KINGDOM ISSNISSN 2049-40922049-4092 (Print)(Print) Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies 10(2) (2021), DOI: 10.2478/bjals-2021-0002 Prison Ships Robert M. Jarvis* ABSTRACT In 2026, New York City plans to close the VERNON C. BAIN, America’s only currently- operating prison ship. Although prison ships have a long history, both in the United States and elsewhere, surprisingly little has been written about them. Accordingly, this article first provides a detailed overview of prison ships. It then surveys the U.S. case law generated by them. KEYWORDS Hulks, Prisoners, Prisoners of War, Prisons, Ships CONTENTS I. Introduction ......................................................................................283 II. Definitions and Scope ......................................................................284 III. History .............................................................................................288 A. Use During Wartime ......................................................................288 1. By Foreign Countries .....................................................................288 2. By the United States .......................................................................292 B. Use During Peacetime ..................................................................293 1. By Foreign Countries .....................................................................293 2. By the United States .......................................................................300 IV. U.S. Case Law ...................................................................................316 A. Mere Mention Cases ......................................................................316 B. Literary Effect Cases .....................................................................319 C. Key Role Cases ..............................................................................321 D. New York City Cases .....................................................................324 * Professor of Law, Nova Southeastern University ([email protected]). The research for this article closed on August 15, 2020. © 2021 Robert M. Jarvis, published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. 10 Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies (2021) 1. HAROLD A. WILDSTEIN and WALTER KEANE .........................324 2. BIBBY RESOLUTION and BIBBY VENTURE ..............................326 3. VERNON C. BAIN .........................................................................330 V. Conclusion.........................................................................................333 282 Prison Ships I. Introduction On October 17, 2019, the New York City Council voted to close Rikers Island, one of the world’s largest and most brutal penal institutions,1 and replace it with four new decentralized jails.2 As part of the plan, which has a December 31, 2026 deadline, the City’s Department of Correction (“DOC”) intends to close the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center.3 Known in everyday parlance as “The Boat,” the VERNON C. BAIN is America’s only current prison ship.4 1 Rikers Island is a 415-acre island in the East River, located just off the Queens shore (the location of its only bridge—before it was built in 1966, all travel to the island was by boat). Due to a historical quirk, the island politically is part of the Bronx. It traces its beginnings to 1664, when Governor Peter Stuyvesant granted the then 87-acre island to a local farmer named Abraham Rycken. In 1884, the island was sold back to the City for $180,000. Initially, the City used the island as a landfill (which caused it to expand to its present size). In 1935, the first jail opened on Rikers Island, replacing the City’s crumbling one (built 1832) on Blackwell (now Roosevelt) Island. Today, Rikers Island is home to 10 jails that hold, at any given time, 11,000-13,000 inmates. See Sharon Seitz & Stuart Miller, The Other Islands of New York City: A History and Guide 200- 01, 206 (3d ed. 2011). By the 1970s, the jails on Rikers Island had become “notoriously overcrowded and explosive.” Id. at 200. Despite efforts to fix them, they remain cramped, chaotic, and dangerous. See, e.g., Benjamin Weiser, Violence at Rikers Doubles Despite Efforts to Restrict Use of Force by Guards, N.Y. Times, Aug. 7, 2020, at A21 (“[A] federal monitor appointed to oversee the troubled jail system has found that little progress has been made curbing the brutality of guards and that violent incidents have risen sharply since 2016. .”). See also Homer Venters, Life and Death in Rikers Island (2019); Mary E. Buser, Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York’s Notorious Jail (2015). As one would expect, COVID-19 has magnified Rikers’ many problems. See Sonia Moghe, Inside New York’s Notorious Rikers Island Jails, “The Epicenter of the Epicenter” of the Coronavirus Pandemic, CNN (May 18, 2020), https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/16/us/rikers-coronavirus/index.html. 2 See The Council of the City of New York, Resolution 1091-2019 (Oct. 17, 2019), https:// legistar.council.nyc.gov/Legislation.aspx. See also Matthew Haag, New York City to Close Rikers for Jail Reform, N.Y. Times, Oct. 18, 2019, at A1 (explaining that once the new jails are built, Rikers Island is expected to be turned into a public park). The Council’s decision marked the culmination of a years-long grass roots effort to shut Rikers Island. See Janos Marton, #Closerikers: The Campaign to Transform New York City’s Criminal Justice System, 45 Fordham Urb. L.J. 499 (2018). 3 See The Council of the City of New York, Report of the Finance Division on the Fiscal 2021 Preliminary Plan and the Fiscal 2020 Preliminary Mayor’s Management Report for the Department of Correction 26 (Mar. 16, 2020), https://council.nyc.gov/budget/ wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2020/03/072-DOC.pdf (“[T]he goal is to . complete construction of all four new facilities by 2026. After construction is complete, Rikers Island and the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center will be closed.”). 4 For photographs of the vessel, see its Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Vernon_C._Bain_Correctional_Center. The DOC’s web site describes the VERNON C. BAIN as follows: A five-story jail barge built in New Orleans to DOC specifications, the facility houses medium to maximum security detainees. Opened in the Fall of 1992, it is named for a former Warden who died in a car accident. It serves as the Bronx detention facility for intake processing. 283 10 Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies (2021) There has been relatively little published about prison ships,5 and to date no one has collected the U.S. case law generated by such ships. This article seeks to fill both gaps. II. Definitions and Scope Prison ships are vessels that have been converted by the government into floating jails.6 New York City Department of Correction, Facilities Overview, at https://www1.nyc. gov/site/doc/about/facilities.page. In a series of tweets dated Nov. 1, 2018, a Brooklyn public defender named Scott Hechinger described his first visit to the VERNON C. BAIN. See Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech), Twitter (Nov. 1, 2018, 11:31 AM), https:// twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1057958412938592256. Like others before him, he found the vessel “massive” and “foreboding.” Id. Director Brian De Palma featured the VERNON C. BAIN in his 1993 movie Carlito’s Way, even though the story is set in 1975. See Carlito’s Way (1993)—Goofs, IMDb, at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106519/goofs.
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