Overview
- Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as they await U.S. federal proceedings on alleged narcotics-related charges following their capture last week.
- Rapper Daniel “Tekashi 6ix9ine” Hernandez reported to the jail on Tuesday to start a three-month federal custodial sentence after admitting assault and drug possession and violating supervised release.
- MDC Brooklyn primarily holds federal defendants awaiting trial or sentencing and has recently drawn renewed attention because of its high-profile detainees.
- Notable current or former inmates include Sam Bankman-Fried, Ghislaine Maxwell, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, R. Kelly, Sean Combs, and others linked to major federal cases.
- A Federal Bureau of Prisons fact sheet asserts decreased violence and fewer contraband attempts since January 2024, while earlier reports cited two inmate deaths that year and chronic overcrowding beyond the facility’s 1,000-inmate design.