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Jail Sued, to be Visited by Federal Judge Due to Freezing Conditions and Lockdown Updated: Published by:

The Metropolitan Detention Center (M.D.C.), a federal jail in Brooklyn, is the subject of a new lawsuit and will be toured by a federal judge and senior federal defender after a power outage caused corrections officials to reportedly hold inmates on at least partial lockdown for days with no heat.…