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Luigi Mangione, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Sam Bankman-Fried To Share Hellish Brooklyn Jail
Metropolitan Detention Center is fabled for its difficult conditions and is notorious even among wardens. It is depicted as one of the most "troubled" facilities in the Bureau of Prisons, with issues ranging from overcrowding, violence and more.
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Mouldy Salad, Smelly Toilets: Jailed Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's Charge
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell -- accused of grooming underage girls for sex with Jeffrey Epstein -- has been held at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center for almost 17 months, after being arrested last year at her estate in New Hampshire.
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Officers Watching Jeffrey Epstein Were On Overtime, Union President Says
The two correctional officers assigned to watch the special unit in the detention center where financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was being housed when he apparently hanged himself Saturday were working overtime - one forced to do so by management, the other for his fourth or fifth consecutive day, the president of the local union for jail ...
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US Justice Department Orders Probe Into Frigid New York Jail: Report
The US Department of Justice late on Wednesday ordered an investigation into a Brooklyn jail where inmates said they spent days in frigid, dark cells after a fire cut power and heat during a cold snap in New York City, media reports said.
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At Minus 18 Celsius, New York Jail Inmates Shiver In Frigid Cells
Inmates at a federal jail in Brooklyn have suffered for days without heat or power during a wintry cold snap, according to lawyers and US lawmakers who rallied outside the jail on Saturday demanding the problems be fixed and ill inmates moved.
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26/11 Convict David Headley Reportedly Critical After Attack In US Jail
The US authorities refused to comment on media reports that Pakistani-American convict in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case David Coleman Headley was battling for his life after being attacked by inmates at a detention centre on Monday.
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Luigi Mangione, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Sam Bankman-Fried To Share Hellish Brooklyn Jail
Metropolitan Detention Center is fabled for its difficult conditions and is notorious even among wardens. It is depicted as one of the most "troubled" facilities in the Bureau of Prisons, with issues ranging from overcrowding, violence and more.
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Mouldy Salad, Smelly Toilets: Jailed Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's Charge
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell -- accused of grooming underage girls for sex with Jeffrey Epstein -- has been held at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center for almost 17 months, after being arrested last year at her estate in New Hampshire.
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Officers Watching Jeffrey Epstein Were On Overtime, Union President Says
The two correctional officers assigned to watch the special unit in the detention center where financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was being housed when he apparently hanged himself Saturday were working overtime - one forced to do so by management, the other for his fourth or fifth consecutive day, the president of the local union for jail ...
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US Justice Department Orders Probe Into Frigid New York Jail: Report
The US Department of Justice late on Wednesday ordered an investigation into a Brooklyn jail where inmates said they spent days in frigid, dark cells after a fire cut power and heat during a cold snap in New York City, media reports said.
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At Minus 18 Celsius, New York Jail Inmates Shiver In Frigid Cells
Inmates at a federal jail in Brooklyn have suffered for days without heat or power during a wintry cold snap, according to lawyers and US lawmakers who rallied outside the jail on Saturday demanding the problems be fixed and ill inmates moved.
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26/11 Convict David Headley Reportedly Critical After Attack In US Jail
The US authorities refused to comment on media reports that Pakistani-American convict in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case David Coleman Headley was battling for his life after being attacked by inmates at a detention centre on Monday.
