"Days after being captured in a Caracas safe house, ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro finds himself in a far less hospitable environment: a Brooklyn jail where he likely will be confined to a cell 23 hours a day, conditions that Sean "Diddy" Combs and Ghislaine Maxwell had called inhumane. Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores face drug trafficking charges in the United States after being captured in a dramatic overnight raid."
"They were transported to a U.S. Navy ship, flown to the U.S. and taken Saturday night to the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. Both the 63-year-old Maduro and his 69-year-old wife are due to appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday. Founded in 1994, MDC Brooklyn holds roughly 1,300 men and women and is currently the only jail for detainees awaiting federal trials in New York City."
"The jail has been plagued by what inmates and defense lawyers have said are inhumane and unsanitary conditions. In 2019, some detainees at MDC Brooklyn were left in frigid cells after an electrical fire cut power and heat to the jail in the middle of winter. In 2024, two men were murdered by fellow inmates using makeshift weapons, according to the Justice Department, prompting a crackdown on violence and contraband smuggling at the facility."
Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured in a Caracas safe house and face U.S. drug‑trafficking charges. They were transported to a U.S. Navy ship, flown to the United States, and taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where they await a Manhattan federal court appearance. MDC Brooklyn, founded in 1994, holds roughly 1,300 detainees and is the only federal detention center for pretrial inmates in New York City. The facility has a history of inhumane and unsanitary conditions, fires that cut heat and power, inmate murders in 2024, and prior complaints of raw sewage and vermin.
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