Metropolitan Detention Center

Can I do negative stars for this one? Hmm. Where do I begin? The workers tend to be cruel, overpaid, all from the area so they know many of the people in there and thus, if you dont know them, you are the one getting busted for one too many blankets. At mail call, the cops get jealous of the mail you get and it goes missing. The counselors have office hours they do not keep and to get ahold of them or an answer to your cop-​out is impossible. The place is packed with about 2300 people and the «old MDC’ is a crumbling crap hole. I spent two months here in 2007 waiting to get shipped to the midwest. The food is horrible, the dorms are loud, the laundry doesnt work and its so cold in here. Visitation is the loudest I have ever seen and you have to do some really bogus searches. i.e. the cops want to look at you naked. If you have the misfortune of being stuck in a nyc federal prison, try to get to MCC. its way better, all things considered.

I rated Brooklyn MDC «A-​OK».
My stay was roughly 6 months. I was housed in what they call the «new building», which was cleaner and more high tech, contrary to the «old building» which was dorm-​style and, from what I heard, «a rat infested trash dump filled with terrorists and mobsters».
As previously stated, the food was OK, the building was rather clean. For entertainment, there were several TV’s and a rather active ping pong table that was the circle of attention on late weekend nights. Although there was only a stabbing in my pod ONCE, I felt rather safe and secure, and the guards normally did their duty.
Therefore, I rate MDC Brooklyn 3/​5, «A-​OK»!

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Officially, this place doesn’t exist. Try finding it on a map. Nope. Its like, off-​the-​grid. Spooky. You can locate it via photographs but that’s about it. No one goes here and no one leaves. Right in our own neighborhood. I can assure you that its just not an institution that wants any kind of profile. It wants *your* profile if you stroll by too close. So, keep walking. Nothing to see here. Ride on. Costco’s a few blocks south.

I can actually review this place as my boyfriend was sitting there for 3 years for drug trafficking (that happened many years ago). He lost a lot of weight and become almost autistic. He lost a job, his business, almost all friends (that’s maybe a good thing after all) and almost lost me. The «clientelle» is rather friendly. The guards do not push above the roof. The food is bad, but there’s commissary for a hundred bucks a week. Then you can «pay» the locals to cook something for you.
He fought his case and won a time served. What an experience.

I can’t actually provide a proper review. However, this is the Federal Metropolitan Detention Center. Many people may not know there is a federal prison so close by, but according to the Bureau of Prisons Website this is an administrative facility capable of housing prisoners in all security levels, from violent offenders with possible high escape risk, to low risk security threats.