Metropolitan Correctional Center

The warden who ran the federal jail where disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself was allowed to quietly retire from the Bureau of Prisons in February, coming amid an investigation examining how one of the government’s highest profile inmates could take his own life in custody

A federal correctional officer was arrested Friday for lying to investigators after a loaded gun was found in an inmate’s cell at a federal jail in New York City — the same troubled lockup where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in 2019

A judge has ordered charges dropped against two Bureau of Prisons guards who admitted falsifying records after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in jail.

Two guards and a jail secretary were bribed to smuggle drugs, booze and cellphones to inmates at the troubled Metropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan for over a year, authorities said Thursday as they announced charges against the trio and eight former inmates.

Lower Manhattan’s MCC has housed a slew of famously well-known criminals — El Chapo, John Gotti, Bernie Madoff, and some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists.

The last few inmates at the MCC were transferred to a facility in Brooklyn, after the deteriorated Manhattan locked was closed for repairs.

The last inmates housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan will be transferred out and will be sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn by the end of business Monday, leaving the federal jail with zero inmates, an official familiar with the matter tells News 4 New York. The last few inmates had afternoon court appearances…

Inside the notorious federal jail in Lower Manhattan, small chunks of concrete fall from the ceiling. Freezing temperatures force inmates to stuff old coronavirus face masks into vents to try to stop the cold air. One cell is off-limits because the door is now unstable – likely because of the constant pounding over the years from the prisoners inside on…

The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down a federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there two years ago. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down an embattled federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there two years ago.