The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn has been plagued for years by chronic understaffing, outbreaks of violence, vermin infestations, and a rash of deaths.
  • breakingcups@lemmy.world
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    … plagued by chronic understaffing, constant lockdowns, outbreaks of violence, delayed access to medical care, and a rash of suicides and deaths.

    Hear me out. No prison should be able to be described as a hellhole. Inmates are people.