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Yenchun Chen, 44, was nabbed around 6:15 a.m. inside a building on 45th Avenue – about half a mile from his own home in Long Island City, cops and law enforcement sources said.

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Seven stabbings and slashings were reported between Friday and Monday in the George R. Vierno Center, a jail with a rough capacity of 1,300 detainees, correction sources told the Daily News.

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Critics cited the turnover at the upper levels of the Correction Department as further evidence that Commissioner Louis Molina is doing the bidding of the powerful jail unions.

Female officers, who make up nearly half of the uniformed staff at New York City’s jails, said they were at particularly high risk of being attacked.

Jul 11, 2021 / 05:00 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 11, 2021 / 10:48 AM CDT David Mordukhaev escaped a Department of Correction facility in the Bronx on July 10, 2021, officials said. (Credit: NYPD; stock image) NEW YORK (WPIX) — Authorities in New York are searching for a prisoner who escaped a prison barge, officials confirmed on Saturday. According to WPIX, David Mordukhaev, 30, escaped a New York City Department of Correction holding facility in the Bronx. The inmate was discovered missi...

NYPD: Prisoner escapes custody in Bronx By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJuly 11, 2021 GMT NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Department of Corrections said late Saturday that a prisoner who escaped custody in the Bronx earlier in the day had been captured. The 30-year-old man had escaped from a floating jail off the Bronx that is part of the Vernon C. Bain Correction Center, authorities said. DOC Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi issued a statement late Saturday to say the escape remains under investigati...

New York authorities apprehend escaped Bronx inmate Celine Castronuovo © iStock coronavirus COVID-19 community spread jail prison federal corrections institute BOP louisiana Oakdale three inmates deal victor rodriguez preexisting concitions quarantine prisons jail The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said Saturday that an inmate who escaped from a Bronx prison earlier in the day had been apprehended after a massive search by multiple law enforcement agencies. The depar...

Buggs sat in custody for three years at Rikers following his February 2018 second-degree murder arrest in the death of Ernest Brownlee, 55, who was shot in front of a Throop Avenue deli in Bed-Stuy. Court records indicated he was next due for a hearing in June on the murder charges. At the time of his accidentally release, Department of Correction online inmate records also showed Buggs status as "Released." He had been held in the Otis Bantum facility. It appeared Buggs was released on an unr...