New York – Public defenders and a correction officers’ union say more than 1,000 inmates have been stuck in cold cells at a federal jail in New York for at least a week.
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The lead federal defender in Brooklyn, Deirdre von Dornum, tells The New York Times that inmates have flooded federal defenders’ offices with calls about poor heating, little or no hot water and dark cells at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
Paralegal Rachel Bass says “frantic” callers couldn’t get extra blankets or clothing and complained of congestion and sore throats.
One inmate said a corrections officer checked the temperature in a housing unit and it was 34 degrees.
Jail officials say the building experienced a partial power outage on Saturday but denied that it affected heat and hot water supply.
We pay taxes for safe, secure jails. It seems they take the money and do not do the job.
Poor deprived inmates !!!! While the homeless are outside in the cold … What a world !!!!!
Let’s not build the wall. Take the $5 billions and help accomadate our inmates so that they could have a better quality of life.
To #2 - You, Sir. are am idiot! How would you like to be locked up in an area, for an extended period without heat? You probably would be the loudest complainer.
We call America “Medina Shel Chesed” However, the Justice System in America is worse then Pre war Europe. They treat every defendant and inmate like Cattle.
To #’s 8 and 9- Both of you are idiots, plain and simple. Even if someone is locked up in a cell, that doesn’t mean that they should be psychologically and physically tortured. This is not China or North Korea. Incidentally, this is the same federal lockup where many aliens (including Israelis) were imprisoned after 9/11/01, and beaten and otherwise abused. Their crime was that they overstayed their visas. They were held for months, under very bad conditions.