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Subject: NY Judge Rips 'Terrible' Conditions At NYC Federal Jails - Law360 
Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 11:46:16 +0000 
NY Judge Rips 'Terrible' Conditions At NYC Federal Jails 
By Stewart Bishop 
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Law360, New York (May 5, 2020, 9:12 PM 
EDT) -- A New York federal judge on Tuesday 
derided the "unfortunate, terrible" conditions 
at New York City's two main federal jails, both 
before and after the coronavirus pandemic, 
during a hearing where he sentenced an 
admitted fraudster who tried to steal $2.5 
million from a law firm to time served. 
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman 
criticized the "deficient system" at the 
Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn 
and said he "has serious doubts" about the 
ability of the Metropolitan Correctional Center 
in Manhattan to safely and properly house its 
detainees. 
Judge Berman, who presided over the 
criminal sex trafficking case against Jeffrey 
Epstein until his suicide at the MCC in 
August, said he was very disappointed that to 
his knowledge, U.S. Attorney General William 
Barr has not conducted a thorough 
assessment and investigation of the Bureau 
of Prisons nationwide, something he said 
Barr pledged to do around the time of 
Epstein's suicide. 
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In particular, Judge Berman said as far as he 
knows, there have been no serious reviews 
forthcoming of the poor living conditions at 
either the MCC or the MDC — which he said 
are dirty and infested with drugs and violence 
— conditions that have been many times 
compounded by the coronavirus outbreak. 
"It is an outrage I have to say, and I'm very 
disappointed the Attorney General has not 
followed through on making a thorough 
investigation of conditions that those of us in 
the business, as it were, are all too familiar 
with," Judge Berman said. "And more 
importantly has not implemented appropriate 
changes…
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