From: ' (USANYS)" To: ' )" Subject: NY Judge Rips 'Terrible' Conditions At NYC Federal Jails - Law360 Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 11:46:16 +0000 NY Judge Rips 'Terrible' Conditions At NYC Federal Jails By Stewart Bishop Share us on: Law360, New York (May 5, 2020, 9:12 PM EDT) -- A New York federal judge on Tuesday derided the "unfortunate, terrible" conditions at New York City's two main federal jails, both before and after the coronavirus pandemic, during a hearing where he sentenced an admitted fraudster who tried to steal $2.5 million from a law firm to time served. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman criticized the "deficient system" at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and said he "has serious doubts" about the ability of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan to safely and properly house its detainees. Judge Berman, who presided over the criminal sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein until his suicide at the MCC in August, said he was very disappointed that to his knowledge, U.S. Attorney General William Barr has not conducted a thorough assessment and investigation of the Bureau of Prisons nationwide, something he said Barr pledged to do around the time of Epstein's suicide. https://www.law360.corn/articles/1270636/ny-judge- rips-terrible-conditions-at-nyc-federal-jails EFTA00025383