Keeping families overnight at the intake center is a violation of longstanding judicial orders.

The intake center's front room was proportioned identically to that of the hospital entrance.

Thirty families slept at the intake center, down from 32 on Wednesday.

In the morning they will be bused back to the intake center.

They were expected to spend an average of 21 days at Bellevue, the program's intake center.

Officials are planning to close the city's three intake centers for homeless women and replace them with one site to serve the five boroughs.

It serves as an intake center for men who are not sentenced to death.

The intake center and shelter operators will also share information about abuse, a practice not now followed.

The building will also have a gym, a community space, and a separate intake center.

It acts as the intake center for females entering the prison system from around the state and also includes a permanent inmate population.