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New York state closed down the last floating United States prison ship this week, with the ship's 500 occupants temporarily transferred to Rikers Island, as part of a broader effort to replace the city's correctional system with smaller jails. The controversial 800-bed prison barge, named the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, arrived in New York