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Besides James A. Thomas
Center, 4 other DOC facilities are named for African Americans. The floating
jail moored at Hunts Point, across from Rikers, is named for Warden Vernon C.
Bain (d. 1985). The jails named for Warden Otis T. Bantum (d. 1969) and Chiefs
of Department Eric M. Taylor and Robert N. Davoren (the adolescent facility)
are on Rikers Island.
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