It is known as the “hell on earth” and figures like Jeffrey Epstein have passed through there. This is the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, which will provide shelter to the Venezuelan president until now, and his wife, Cilia Flores, for the next few hours. There they will remain surrounded by other prisoners, at least until their first national hearing, which is expected to occur this Monday.
Why is it known as “hell on earth”
This center, located in an industrial area in the Brooklyn district of New York, has a capacity for about 1,200 inmates (among them are Rafael Caro Quintero, Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas), who sometimes die from the violence of other prisoners, hence the nickname “hell on earth.”
It is located between federal prosecutor’s offices and two federal courts. And only in 2024 they died two prisoners for stabbing. In fact, British Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, denounced the “inhuman, cruel and degrading” conditions of the center.
The prison also does not stand out for its good conditions. In fact, in 2019 they were left without electricity for up to a week, which generated several protests. Furthermore, since 2020, according to The Sixthat least six officials have been accused of different crimes.
A high-level prison where personalities like Diddy Combs and Jeffrey Epstein have been
The prison has hosted some pretty well-known names. One of them is the 56-year-old rapper and music producer, Sean Diddy Combswho was found guilty of charges related to prostitution, although innocent of accusations of sex trafficking and conspiracy to extort, and sentenced to four years and two months in prison for prostitution.
President Donald Trump’s former advisor, Michael Cohen, who was also held in the facilities in 2020, after being accused of tax evasion, among other charges, was able to share space with the rapper, about whom he told some details.
“(Combs) wakes up on a steel bed with a one-and-a-half-inch mattress, no pillow, in an eight-by-ten-foot cell that I can assure you is disgusting.”
Former advisor to President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen.
“(Combs) wakes up in a steel bed with a one-and-a-half-inch mattress, no pillow, in an eight-by-ten-foot cell that I can assure you is disgusting,” the former Trump adviser said at the time.
The financial magnate and pedophile also passed by Jeffrey Epstein, who died in a cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
