MDC BROOKLYN IS “TEMPORARILY” NOT ACCEPTING MINIMUM AIC – BUT THEY ARE WORKING TO REOPEN AT A FUTURE DATE…
In UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v GUSTAVO CHAVEZ, United States District Judge JESSE M. FURMAN
- Included ECF No. 35 (“It is the finding of this Court that the conditions to which [the defendant] was subjected are as disgusting, inhuman as anything I’ve heard about any Colombian prison, but more so because we’re supposed to be better than that. . . . )
More Recently, Correctional Management, 9/23/2024
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Thanks to the Urgent Action Team, a group of senior Bureau of Prisons officials, BOP is increasing staff and making repairs at MDC Brooklyn. MDC Brooklyn isn’t the only federal prison facility beset by staffing and other problems.
Federal Court Judge Gary Brown ruled
- He would vacate a 75-year-old tax scammer’s nine-month sentence and give him house arrest instead if he was sent to MDC, citing the “dangerous, barbaric conditions” at the jail.
- “Allegations of inhumane treatment at MDC continue; the judge detailed a string of violence at MDC, including two murders and a caught-on-video assault that showed a trio of MS-13 attackers stabbing a fellow gang member for 37 seconds before a lone correction officer arrived to stop them.”
Judge Furman noted in his rule a limited safety valve. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3145(c), Section 3143(a)(2), two requirements must be met (as I, a non-attorney, read it). First, the person is not likely to flee or pose a danger… and Second, it must be “clearly shown that there are exceptional reasons why such person’s detention would not be appropriate.”