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Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), which holds more than a thousand inmates, is one of the city’s most notorious jails, along with Rikers.
The US Justice Department on Monday charged nine inmates at the Brooklyn (New York) prison that houses high-profile prisoners such as former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and former Mexican Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna with murder and other violent crimes .
The MDC, one of the prisons with the worst reputation
Brooklyn ‘s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) , which holds more than 1,000 inmates, is one of the city’s most notorious jails along with Rikers and has been the subject of complaints about staff shortages, crime within its facilities and harsh living conditions in its cells.
García Luna described his experience in prison this month , where he has been imprisoned for 58 months awaiting sentencing for drug trafficking , in a letter made public by his lawyer, in which he said: “I have witnessed homicides, stabbings and constant threats to my safety.”
Reports of inhumane conditions
A former prisoner, British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, a partner and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein who was transferred to another prison, denounced “inhuman, cruel and degrading” conditions at the MDC and compared her cell to that of the psychopath Hannibal Lecter in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.
Today’s Justice Department announcement relates primarily to the murders of MDC inmates Uriel Whyte and Edwin Cordero in June and July of this year, respectively, for which five inmates were charged today with using homemade weapons and attacking the victims.
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There is also one accused member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, for attempted murder of another inmate, assault and smuggling; two accused of violent assault on other inmates, and another accused of assaulting a prison officer, all of them previously accused or convicted of serious crimes.
The prison houses men and women of all security levels awaiting trial or sentencing, currently housing, for example, cryptocurrency platform founder Sam Bankman-Fried, convicted of fraud, and rapper P. Diddy, accused of sexual abuse. EFE
