New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans.
FILE - The Manhattan Correctional Center appears in this July 1, 2019 photo, in New York. New York Mayor Eric Adams' administration suggested in a letter, to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Aug. 9, 2023, that it wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans.
That shutdown came after the detention center, whose prisoners have included Mafia don John Gotti, associates of Osama bin Laden and the Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, came under new scrutiny because of squalid conditions and security lapses exposed following Epstein's death. In a statement, the federal Bureau of Prisons said"While we decline to comment concerning governmental correspondence, we can provide; MCC New York is closed, at least temporarily, and long-term plans for MCC New York have not been finalized.”“Mayor Adams likes to say that all options are on the table when it comes to housing asylum seekers, but certain places should most definitely be off the table,” said Murad Awawdeh, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition.
“The City has not made timely requests for regulatory changes, has not always promptly shared necessary information with the State, has not implemented programs in a timely manner, and has not consulted the State before taking certain actions," the letter said.
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