Prisoners at Sunset Park’s federal jail reported suffering from lack of heat, hot water
Photo by Jim Henderson via Wikimedia Commons
More than a thousand federal prisoners at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park are said to be freezing in their cells after outages left the jail with very little heat, hot water and electricity.
These conditions were told to The New York Times by six lawyers and paralegals with Federal Defenders of New York, about three dozen inmates at the facility, two union leaders and one employee.
Federal defenders say they were deluged with calls from inmates as temperatures began to drop below freezing. “Our phone was ringing off the hook,” the lead federal defender in Brooklyn, Deirdre von Dornum, told the Times.
