Inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center left without power for days during polar vortex

Grist
By Paola Rosa-AquinoFeb 7, 2019, 12:47 pm204 pts
The scene at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park this past week was harrowing: prisoners–many of whom have yet to be convicted of a crime–relentlessly banged their fists against jail windows, some of them waving lights inside their pitch-black cells. The jail, which houses…

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