New York: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center, or MDC Brooklyn also known as \u2018Hell on earth \u2018, which holds gangsters and drug traffickers among its 1,300 inmates, news agency AP reported.<\/p>\n
President Maduro, who was captured and flown out to the US the other day, is not the first president of a country to be locked up at MDC Brooklyn. <\/p>\n
The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, spent time there while on trial for trafficking cocaine into the US. <\/p>\n
In December, president Trump pardoned Hern\u00e1ndez, who was sentenced to 45 years in jail. <\/p>\n
MDC Brooklyn, where people awaiting trials in federal courts in Manhattan and Brooklyn are usually held, has housed notable inmates including music celebrities R Kelly and Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs. <\/p>\n
The inmates currently doing time at the jail include Ismael \u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada Garcia, co-founder of Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico and Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. <\/p>\n
The jail, usually described as \u2018hell on earth\u2019 and \u2018ongoing tragedy\u2019, sits not far away from the Statue of Liberty in an industrial area. <\/p>\n
Notorious for rampant violence, MDC Brooklyn was in the news in 2024 after two inmates were killed alongside reports of jail workers having been charged with \u2018accepting bribes providing contraband\u2019. <\/p>\n
Alongside, the centre\u2019s poor amenities came to fore after a crippling power outage in 2019 in the facility left inmates facing \u2018cold darkness for a week\u2019. <\/p>\n
The federal Bureau of Prisons, however, recently said it had worked to improve conditions, claiming that \u2018In short, MDC Brooklyn is safe for the inmates and staff\u2019. <\/p>\n
It is reported that authorities have taken measures to \u2018crack down on crimes inside the lockup\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center, or MDC Brooklyn also known…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,24555,9,24,63,42394,1076],"class_list":["post-89375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-jail","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-venezuelan-president","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}