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No Heat for Days at a Jail in Brooklyn Where Hundreds of Inmates Are Sick and ‘Frantic’
NY Times ^ | 2/01/19 | Annie Correal

Posted on 02/02/2019 4:49:14 PM PST by Libloather

More than a thousand inmates have been stuck in freezing cells at a federal jail on the Brooklyn waterfront that has had limited power and heat for at least this week, according to federal public defenders and leaders of the union representing the jail’s corrections officers.

“They just stay huddled up in the bed,” said June Bencebi, a case manager at the jail and the treasurer of the local chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents about 500 corrections officers at the jail.

The jail, the Metropolitan Detention Center, houses more than 1,600 inmates and lies in an industrial swath near the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Some inmates are linked to high-profile drug trafficking and terrorism cases, while others are comparatively anonymous New Yorkers awaiting trial.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bluezones; brooklyn; climatechange; inmates; jail; localnews; nyc
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Illegals walked all that way to freeze?
1 posted on 02/02/2019 4:49:14 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The body generates heat.


2 posted on 02/02/2019 4:52:54 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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“They just stay huddled up in the bed.”

Hey...maybe we can use this.. :)

3 posted on 02/02/2019 4:54:11 PM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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“...while others are comparatively anonymous New Yorkers awaiting trial....”

For selling loosies, having an unregistered bb gun, smoking in the open air, criticizing DiBlasio, etc.


4 posted on 02/02/2019 4:54:43 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Libloather

Why aren’t those jails heated by clean solar heat?


5 posted on 02/02/2019 4:56:38 PM PST by Grampa Dave (DJT, "A wall, not because we hate the people outside of it, but because we love the people inside!")
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To: Libloather

Not impressed, Texas state prisons have no AC.


6 posted on 02/02/2019 4:56:42 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: Libloather

I suppose one has to click on the nyt link to see why the building had limited heat. Other nearby buildings?


7 posted on 02/02/2019 4:57:25 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Libloather

This is what you get when you depend on DemocRATs … state-sponsored suffering.


8 posted on 02/02/2019 4:57:27 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: BusterDog

LOL! That trumps NY!


9 posted on 02/02/2019 4:58:36 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Libloather

I’m so distraught over this, NOT


10 posted on 02/02/2019 5:03:51 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: MtnClimber

Dickensian. Disgraceful.


11 posted on 02/02/2019 5:05:21 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: Libloather

What, DeBlabbios bloviating doesnt create enough hot air to run the city’s ohysical plant?

CC


12 posted on 02/02/2019 5:07:36 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Libloather

Considering the source this story is likely bogus.


13 posted on 02/02/2019 5:09:01 PM PST by Spok
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I wonder if I’m a prisoner locked in some Brooklyn jail
Or some sort of Jonah, shut up inside the whale …

14 posted on 02/02/2019 5:10:09 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Reminds me of some ships I sailed on.

Viet Nam to Mobile Alabama. Wet cloth with a fan blowing on my chest. There is NO evaporative cooling in that humidity.

On my way to Viet Nam, docked in Germany, plant (power plant)died. I slept in my wet suit covered with blankets.


15 posted on 02/02/2019 5:10:50 PM PST by Cold Heart (The main purpose of The Wall is to protect the US from its own politicians.)
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Texas state prisons have no AC.

No heat or AC in Japanese prisons.

“The walls are damp. There is mold on the walls— infested with insects, rotting floorboards, rotting tatami, no heating at any time. No heating whatsoever, not even in the middle of winter.”
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/JAPAN953.PDF


16 posted on 02/02/2019 5:12:47 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Spok

No this story is true. And not right. No heat. No hot water or hot meals in freezing weather. I don’t think they are convicted but awaiting trials.


17 posted on 02/02/2019 5:13:13 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: americas.best.days...

Power outages. Failed equipment. Equipment was replaced but then caught fire.


18 posted on 02/02/2019 5:13:35 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Spok

Some don’t have coats. Inhumane.


19 posted on 02/02/2019 5:14:52 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Libloather

Limited clothing, limited blankets, the warmest spot is 34 degrees. Won’t let them go to the commissary to buy sweatshirts. furnace broken for quite awhile now.


20 posted on 02/02/2019 5:17:52 PM PST by Openurmind
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