federal defenders

"To go five full days with zero access is just entirely unacceptable."

Susan Kellman, who has represented clients at MCC for roughly three decades, recently noted that conditions there are 'the worst that it's ever been.'

Instead of intervening to protect those incarcerated at the jail, the warden at M.D.C., Herman Quay, lied about the extent of the crisis, while downplaying long-standing issues at the facility, attorneys said.

Some inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn have been forced to endure this week's frigid cold without heat, hot water, or other essential services, attorneys said.