Lawyers familiar with the Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center say the facility is returning to normal operations Wednesday — about two weeks after suspicions about a smuggled handgun triggered a lockdown at the federal jail. The lawyers familiar with the investigation say the focus is now in part on a prison officer and whether that officer smuggled the gun, which was…

A loaded gun was found in an inmate’s cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center Thursday evening, ending an eight-day search after officials were tipped off that a weapon had been smuggled inside, according to a senior official and the federal Bureau of Prisons. Other contraband was recovered over the last week as well, including cellphones, narcotics and homemade weapons,...

A gun was found in an inmate’s cell at MCC Thursday, according to a senior official, ending an eight-day search after officials were tipped off that a weapon had been smuggled inside.

As officials continue their search after receiving a tip about a gun smuggled into the federal facility, some inmates have been moved to another place while others remain — with little to no contact with lawyers, families or even showers, some defense attorneys said. Stacey Bell reports.

The lockdown at Metropolitan Correctional Center has entered its seventh day — with no sure date in sight as to when the facility will return to its normal operations, according to memos obtained by News 4. A memo directed at inmates dated Tuesday says the “SIS department is investigating and a decision to return the facility to normal operations will…

For a week, special operations teams have been combing over every inch of the Manhattan facility, after acting on a tip to see if any guns or weapons had been smuggled inside. The inmates remained on lockdown, without access to phones, their families, or even their lawyers ahead of their trials. Stacey Bell reports.

A former correctional officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually abusing a woman housed at the federal lockup in Manhattan — a facility that has drawn mounting criticism for security lapses such as the death last year of financier Jeffrey Epstein. The officer, Colin Akparanta, admitted using his authority to coerce the inmate into sex acts in 2017. He pleaded guilty…

Investigators are focusing on whether a corrections officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center helped smuggle a gun to an inmate, as a lockdown at the facility enters its sixth day, legal sources tell News 4. Jonathan Dienst reports.

The approximately two-month delay comes after defense lawyers said they needed more time to prepare for trial

The agency’s backtracking came after William Barr stepped in and told officials to reverse course given active investigations, a source told the AP

The federal Bureau of Prisons plans to transfer the warden in charge of the jail where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life to another correctional facility, despite an ongoing investigation into the financier’s death

Michael Avenatti, the one-time attorney to Stormy Daniels, is being held in a federal jail cell once occupied by the Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Avenatti’s lawyer said in a court filing Monday. In a letter to a federal judge in New York requesting that his client be moved to Metropolitan Correctional Center’s general population, lawyer Scott...

The U.S. Virgin Islands filed a civil lawsuit claiming the Manhattan financier used two private islands to sexually abuse teens and girls as young as 12 for decades — and if any tried swimming or getting away, search parties were dispatched to bring them back. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

The surveillance footage taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on the day of his first apparent suicide attempt has been permanently deleted, NBC News reported. Epstein, the disgraced financier who was facing federal sex-trafficking charges, was found semiconscious in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York at about 1:27 a.m. on July 23. But that...

Video surveillance footage of the jailhouse area outside of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s cell from the time of his first reported suicide effort in July was located, according to prosecutors. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman wrote an update to Judge Kenneth Karas on Thursday, saying the Metropolitan Correctional Center confirmed that the video initially believed to be missing...

Video surveillance footage of the jailhouse area outside of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s cell from the time of his first reported suicide effort in July is now missing, a lawyer for Epstein’s former cellmate said Wednesday night....

Attorneys for the cellmate, an ex-police officer accused by federal prosecutors of four murders, had been seeking the video since two days...

The pair of corrections officers left court Monday surrounded by supporters, as their lawyers maintain they are being unfairly scapegoated for the wealthy financier’s death. The defense attorneys also addresses unfounded rumors Epstein’s death was a homicide. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A U.S. judge on Friday set an April 2018 trial date for Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on charges he oversaw a multibillion-dollar international drug trafficking operation responsible for murders and kidnappings. Guzman answered the judge’s questions through an interpreter. He spent half the hearing looking across the courtroom at his wife, who smiled and waved to him...

Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life have been charged in connection with the federal investigation into the financier’s death, a senior law enforcement official tells News 4.

Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life are expected to face criminal charges this week for falsifying prison records, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The federal charges could come as soon as Tuesday and are the first in connection with Epstein’s death. The wealthy financier died at the...