Office of the Inspector General

Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice OVERSIGHT * INTEGRITY * GUIDANCE Review and Inspection of Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn Facilities Issues and Related Impacts on Inmates Evaluation and Inspections Division 19-04 September 2019 EFTA00127743 Executive Summary Review arid Inspection of Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn Facilities Issues and Related Impacts on Inmates Introduction According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) Brooklyn is an administrative security Metropolitan Detention Center that houses approximately 1,700 federal pretrial inmates and federal inmates serving sentences (herein collectively referred to as inmates). On Sunday, January 27, 2019, MDC Brooklyn experienced an electrical fire that caused a partial power outage in its West Building. Although the fire was contained soon after it began, the partial power outage lasted a full week-until Sunday, February 3. The out