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Crime & Punishment of Thursday, 26 September 2024

    

Source: BBC

‘Chaos reigns’ – the notorious jail holding Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Metropolitan detention centre in 2021 Metropolitan detention centre in 2021

US District Judge Gary J. Brown hesitated to sentence a tax fraud defendant to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) due to its "dangerous, barbaric conditions."

High-profile inmates like Sean "Diddy" Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried are held there, but many inmates face severe issues, including violence, inadequate medical care, and overcrowding.

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