US EditionAfter capture and removal, Venezuela’s Maduro is being held at notorious Brooklyn jail
Maduro is held at a federal jail known for housing high-profile inmates; recent improvements reduced inmate population by nearly 18%, officials said.
- On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, arriving by motorcade with crowds cheering outside; he will be housed in isolated quarters.
- Some judges have refused to send people to MDC Brooklyn, which has housed high-profile inmates and drawn scrutiny after MCC closed in 2021.
- Officials added correctional and medical staff and remedied over 700 maintenance requests while the inmate population fell from 1,580 in January 2024 to about 1,300, reducing crime and contraband at MDC Brooklyn.
- Maduro is not the first president to be jailed there, a status that included Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras, who was tried and later pardoned and freed, while Maduro may encounter Hugo Carvajal and Anderson Zambrano‑Pacheco.
- The jail has housed high‑profile inmates, with past incidents of violence and infrastructure failures, including a 2019 power outage, raising safety concerns, the Bureau of Prisons says.
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A federal prison with a documented history of power outages, staff shortages, and complaints from detainees has just received two high-profile inmates.
Inside the Brooklyn Jail Where Maduro is Being Held
Just days ago, Nicolás Maduro was in Caracas serving as the President of Venezuela. But after being deposed and captured by American forces, he abruptly finds himself in very different environs: behind the bars of a notorious Brooklyn jail. The Metropolitan Detention Center lies in the relatively quiet neighborhood of Sunset Park, where it houses roughly 1,300 inmates in an industrial area near the waterfront. The jail, which has been the scene …
True to his style, Chilean comedian Fabrizio Copano recorded a short video from the outskirts of the Metropolitan Detention Center, the center where Nicolás Maduro is being held. Resident in New York for years, Copano attended the venue for a clip that he broadcast for his YouTube channel, Somos Fabulous, this Monday, January 5. “We are on the outskirts of what is known as the Colaina One prison here in New York.” Copano arrived at about 21.00 a…
In New York's only federal prison, inmates complain about violence and contaminated food. Nicolás Maduro is now sitting there. The disempowered Venezuelan head of state is just one of several prominent prisoners.
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