It’s not clear if the person escaped from Rikers Island or the Vernon C. Bain Center, the agency’s floating jail in The Bronx.
A city inmate escaped Rikers’ jail barge Tuesday, leaped into the East River and is now clinging to life, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Staff threw the man several life rafts but they claim he refused to accept them, internal records show.
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