The notorious Brooklyn jail the place Maduro is held | EUROtoday

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, captured by US forces on Saturday, is being held within the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a federal jail facility that has for years been on the middle of scandals, investigations and accusations of significant administration shortcomings. The New York Times reviews it right now.

The Metropolitan Detention Center, generally known as MDC, is an imposing advanced situated within the middle of Brooklyn that for many years has housed a few of the most infamous prisoners within the United States awaiting trial or ultimate conviction. It is likely one of the largest federal penitentiary establishments within the nation, with a inhabitants of round 1,600 inmates. Alongside defendants accused of significant crimes corresponding to terrorism or worldwide drug trafficking, the vast majority of individuals detained are awaiting trial for minor crimes.

However, the construction is taken into account extremely problematic. In latest years it has been the scene of stabbings and murders and have become the one federal jail in New York in 2021, after the closure of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan by the Department of Justice as a result of progressive deterioration of inner circumstances.

In 2019, the middle got here into nationwide consideration for a week-long blackoutthroughout which heating and electrical energy failed within the midst of a polar chilly wave. A Department of Justice report concluded that the disaster had been grossly inadequately dealt with by jail authorities.

Maduro, who was transferred to the jail on Saturday, joins a protracted checklist of high-profile prisoners who’ve handed by means of the MDC. These embody Ghislaine Maxwell, former accomplice of the financier and intercourse felony Jeffrey Epstein, the rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs and the singer R. Kellyconvicted of intercourse trafficking.