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No Heat for Days at a Jail in Brooklyn Where Hundreds of Inmates Are Sick and ‘Frantic’
NY Times ^ | 2/01/19 | Annie Correal

Posted on 02/02/2019 4:49:14 PM PST by Libloather

More than a thousand inmates have been stuck in freezing cells at a federal jail on the Brooklyn waterfront that has had limited power and heat for at least this week, according to federal public defenders and leaders of the union representing the jail’s corrections officers.

“They just stay huddled up in the bed,” said June Bencebi, a case manager at the jail and the treasurer of the local chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents about 500 corrections officers at the jail.

The jail, the Metropolitan Detention Center, houses more than 1,600 inmates and lies in an industrial swath near the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Some inmates are linked to high-profile drug trafficking and terrorism cases, while others are comparatively anonymous New Yorkers awaiting trial.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bluezones; brooklyn; climatechange; inmates; jail; localnews; nyc
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To: morphing libertarian

Why not all of them no matter what they did? Just get rid of them as soon as they are found guilty of any crime period.


41 posted on 02/02/2019 6:25:01 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: Olog-hai

Cuckoo Cocoon.

Nice reference :)

Saw the band Musical Box recreate the entire show (Genesis gave them the rights to the costumes & background videos).


42 posted on 02/02/2019 6:26:33 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Olog-hai

Cuckoo Cocoon.

Nice reference :)

Saw the band Musical Box recreate the entire show (Genesis gave them the rights to the costumes & background videos).


43 posted on 02/02/2019 6:26:33 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Openurmind

I was being sarcastic with an idiot who thinks it’s ok. Please tell me you are being sarcastic also. Or are you on the same list as he.


44 posted on 02/02/2019 6:28:46 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Libloather

The government has a legal mandate to protect inmates, unlike, say, any obligation to protect the kids at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school.


45 posted on 02/02/2019 6:29:01 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Openurmind

Not everyone who goes to trial is guilty. That’s what the trial is for. This facility also houses people awaiting trial, which should give pause for thought.


46 posted on 02/02/2019 6:31:35 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

The article says they are waiting for trial. They don’t get speedy trials back there. Could be 3 months or more just to get a court date. That alone is wrong in it’s self.


47 posted on 02/02/2019 6:32:38 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: P.O.E.

I’ve been following this fellow named Nathaniel Barlam on Youtube; he’s been making his own “musical comics” as he calls them, and he’s been doing the entire “Lamb” album. He’s up to “The Lamia” at present. His comic rendition of “Supper’s Ready” caught my attention at first.


48 posted on 02/02/2019 6:38:13 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: sparklite2

Arrested is good enough, let them die.

Sometimes the extremism around here is just baffling to me.


49 posted on 02/02/2019 6:39:12 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: gcparent

Wah.

I don’t recall heat, air conditioning, or hot food during most of my time in the Marine Corps. Come to think of it, I slept on the ground under the stars, or with a shelter half a lot.

Give them a sleeping bag.


50 posted on 02/02/2019 6:39:58 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

what judge sentenced you to the corps?


51 posted on 02/02/2019 6:41:51 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Libloather

What do they expect in a jail? Club Med? I could care less about these poor poor criminals. What about the people to whom they caused harm, injury or death? Do they get to complain, too?


52 posted on 02/02/2019 6:41:54 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: MrEdd

Maybe this needs to be included in trumps prison reform.


53 posted on 02/02/2019 6:42:21 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: morphing libertarian

Yes I was, Doubling up your sarcasm with like kind. :)


54 posted on 02/02/2019 6:42:26 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: EinNYC

no they get a trial the the guilty party is sentenced to freeze to death in jail.


55 posted on 02/02/2019 6:43:05 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: MtnClimber
This is what you get when you depend on DemocRATs … state-sponsored suffering.

It's a federal facility.

56 posted on 02/02/2019 6:45:27 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Openurmind

slow night in the rain, missed it


57 posted on 02/02/2019 6:46:13 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Openurmind

Agree. These same freepers very concerned about a fetus killed have no compassion for adult humans. Suffering is suffering.


58 posted on 02/02/2019 6:47:02 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Openurmind

I’ve learned to not respond to many of the insane posts here, but can’t help it sometimes. The lesson learned is that you can’t reason someone out of something they weren’t reasoned into.

Also that change is hard, but self-destruction is easy.


59 posted on 02/02/2019 6:47:11 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: EinNYC

Many are awaiting trial. Innocent until proven guilty.


60 posted on 02/02/2019 6:48:22 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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