\n Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is set to be transferred from his life of luxury to the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in New York City.\n <\/p>\n
\n Described as \u201cdisgusting\u201d with \u201chorrifying\u201d conditions, the MDC is known for its squalid conditions, chronic understaffing, inmate violence and power outages.\n <\/p>\n
\n Built in the 1990s to combat prison overcrowding, the facility has housed people including singer R. Kelly<\/a>, \u201cPharma Bro\u201d Martin Shkreli<\/a>, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, one-time cryptocurrency whiz kid Sam Bankman-Fried<\/a> and music mogul Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/a>. Suspected cartel leader Ismael \u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada Garcia<\/a> was also held there as he awaited trial on murder and drug trafficking charges.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s a very difficult place to be an inmate,\u201d Combs\u2019 attorney Marc Agnifilo argued in court in late 2024, telling the judge it would be difficult for his client to get ready for trial if he were to be housed there.\n <\/p>\n \n Violence can be a constant threat. One inmate was fatally stabbed in June 2024 and another died in a fight a month later.\n <\/p>\n \n A 2019 power outage plunged prisoners into near-total darkness in frigid temperatures for a week. The incident prompted a Justice Department investigation that resulted in a $10 million settlement for 1,600 affected inmates. Inmates had been confined to their cells for days and forced to endure unsanitary conditions with malfunctioning toilets, according to the lawsuit filed on their behalf.\n <\/p>\n \n The MDC is the only federal correction center serving New York City following the closure of Manhattan\u2019s complex after multimillionaire financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s death by suicide in 2019.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is set to be transferred from his life of luxury to the Metropolitan Detention…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-219403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}