Brooklyn judge calls Sunset Park federal jail 'an abomination' after staff ignore order to send ailing inmate to medical facility
A furious federal judge described staff of Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as “contemptuous of human life and dignity” after jailers defied her order to send an inmate with a severe contagious infection to a medical facility. Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Dora Irizarry ripped into federal prosecutors and lawyers representing the troubled jail’s management in a tense Wednesday morning ...