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U.S. to close troubled N.Y.C. jail where Jeffrey Epstein [didn't] killed himself
NBC ^ | Aug. 27, 2021, 6:16 AM CDT / Source: Associated Press

Posted on 08/27/2021 9:19:02 AM PDT by Red Badger

The Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan will be closed at least temporarily to address issues that have long plagued the facility, including lax security and crumbling infrastructure.

The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down an embattled federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there two years ago.

The federal Bureau of Prisons said the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan will be closed at least temporarily to address issues that have long plagued the facility, including lax security and crumbling infrastructure.

The facility, which has held inmates such as Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Mafia boss John Gotti, currently has 233 inmates, down from a normal population of 600 or more. Most of them are expected to be transferred to a federal jail in Brooklyn.

The decision to close the Metropolitan Correctional Center — billed as one of the most secure jails in America — comes weeks after Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco toured the jail and saw the conditions firsthand.

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1 posted on 08/27/2021 9:19:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
closed at least temporarily to address issues that have long plagued the facility

The primary problem is those damn cameras. So unreliable.

2 posted on 08/27/2021 9:20:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population is taxed w/o representation.)
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To: Red Badger

Where Epstein was murdered.


3 posted on 08/27/2021 9:20:43 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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They also need to fire and replace most the workers and shift supervisors from that prison.
Most likely though, the lousy workers from prison A. will be transfered to prison B.


4 posted on 08/27/2021 9:22:40 AM PDT by lee martell
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Everyone of the jailers are on the take.


5 posted on 08/27/2021 9:38:36 AM PDT by chopperk
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Barn Door...Horse


6 posted on 08/27/2021 9:44:17 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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Make no mistake: Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide!


7 posted on 08/27/2021 9:52:26 AM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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Make no mistake: Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide!

Probably an early Covid case.

8 posted on 08/27/2021 9:53:42 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t be too surprised if we see head,Ines in the near future that say “ny to close all prisons because they don’t work well enough to rehabilitate the good people incarcerated in them”


9 posted on 08/27/2021 10:21:03 AM PDT by Bob434
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Hint:

What do you do with empty jails?

Prison closures in ...3, 2, 1,...


10 posted on 08/27/2021 11:14:18 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (On the backs of Joseph Stolen and future Lessident Harris, the Democrat party should evaporate.)
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Wht is AP and the rest of the news media still pushing the ‘Eostein killed himself’ farce, It is obvious that he did not kill himself. The evidence is clear. The cameras that would have covered him were disabled. The two guards that should have patrolled his cell block did not. he had 3 broken bones in his neck that indicate that he was strangled. All the evidence is there and still the media keeps trying to put us off with ‘Epstein killed himsself’ lie. Who are they trying to hide?


11 posted on 08/27/2021 11:36:42 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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Lax security? They have one job...


12 posted on 08/27/2021 6:38:05 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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