Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn
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Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. It is bounded by Greenwood Heights to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and Upper New York Bay to the west...
, New York, is one of several MDC
Metropolitan Detention Center
"Metropolitan Detention Centers" are federal detention facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and located throughout the United States...
s operated by the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a federal law enforcement agency subdivision of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The system also handles prisoners who committed acts considered felonies under the District of Columbia's...
.
The federal detention center was built to hold 1,000 inmates.
It houses both male and female inmates.
It was built to hold prisoners awaiting arraignment
Arraignment
Arraignment is a formal reading of a criminal complaint in the presence of the defendant to inform the defendant of the charges against him or her. In response to arraignment, the accused is expected to enter a plea...
s or trials in Federal courts. The center was built mainly to serve the Federal courts of the Eastern District of New York, which includes Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island. But it also can be used to hold prisoners awaiting trial or arraignment in the Southern District of New York, including Manhattan, the Bronx, Westchester, and five upstate New York counties.
It opened in the early 1990s over opposition from neighbors and local elected officials. Critics feared that the jail, with its staff, inmates, visitors, and supply deliveries would overburden neighborhood traffic and water and sewer systems.
In 1999, a second facility (the West Side) was opened adjacent to the original complex (the East Side) to house federal inmates in-transit/holdover (those inmates who have already been sentenced and are on their way to another institution), bringing the total number of inmates being housed at the institution to close to 3,000.
In order to run the largest detention center in the country, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) opened a prison camp within the confines of the institution. Currently, over 300 "cadres" (so called "campers") are designated at MDC in order to maintain the facilities and feed the 3,000 or so inmates.
| Inmate | Crime and status | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Mahmood Alessa | Charged with conspiring to kill, maim, and kidnap people | N/A |
| Carlos "Omar" Eduardo Almonte | Charged with conspiring to kill, maim, and kidnap people | N/A |
| Peter Gatien Peter Gatien Peter Gatien was the owner of several New York nightclubs, including The Limelight, Palladium, Club USA, and Tunnel. He was once dubbed as the "King of New York Clubs", during his time in New York City.-Life and career:... |
New York mafioso | N/A |
| John A. Gotti, Jr. | Gambino crime family Gambino crime family The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963... head |
00632-748 |
| Peter Gotti Peter Gotti Peter Gotti, also known as "One Eyed Pete", "Petey Boy", "One Eye" , is a New York mobster who is the former boss of the Gambino crime family and the older brother of deceased Gambino boss John Gotti.-Background:... |
New York mafioso | 99109-012 |
| Hal Turner Hal Turner Harold Charles "Hal" Turner is an American white nationalist, Holocaust denier and blogger from North Bergen, New Jersey. In August 2010, he was convicted for making threats against three federal judges with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals... |
Radio broadcaster, threatening federal judges; Moved to the Communication Management Unit Communication Management Unit Communication Management Unit is a recent designation for a self-contained group within a facility in the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons that severely restricts, manages and monitors all outside communication of inmates in the unit.-Origins:As part of the Bush Administration's War on... , Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute The Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, is a federal prison for adult males located at the intersection of State Road 63 and Springhill Drive, two miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana United States... . |
30057-050 |
| Al Sharpton Al Sharpton Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton, Jr. is an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election... |
Baptist minister; 90 days in MDC, Brooklyn in 2001 | N/A |
| Aafia Siddiqui Aafia Siddiqui Aafia Siddiqui is an American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. The charges carried a maximum sentence of life in prison; in September 2010, she was sentenced by a United States district court to 86... |
Suspected al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad... member |
90279-054 |
| Ronell Wilson Ronell Wilson Ronell Earl Wilson was convicted of the 2003 capital murder of two undercover New York City police officers in Staten Island, New York. His trial before Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York began on November 27, 2006. On December 20,... |
Killed two undercover policemen in 2003 | N/A |
| Najibullah Zazi Najibullah Zazi Najibullah Zazi is an Afghan-American who was arrested in September 2009 as part of the 2009 U.S. Al Qaeda group accused of planning suicide bombings on the New York City subway system, and has pled guilty as have two other defendants. U.S... |
Convicted al-Qaeda member | N/A |
| Albert Gonzalez Albert Gonzalez Albert Gonzalez is a computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 through 2007—the biggest such fraud in history.Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL injection... |
Corporate cyber-crime | N/A |
| Adam Jasinski Adam Jasinski Adam Jasinski is the winner of the U.S. series Big Brother 9. Jasinski is a public relations manager from Delray Beach, Florida... |
Big Brother 9 Winner; Plead guilty to drug trafficking | 27493-038 |