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https://gothamist.com/2018/06/19/mcc_jail_human_rights_torture.php

"Andrew Laufer, a civil rights attorney who has filed several lawsuits challenging conditions at the BOPs two federal jails in New York City, recalled suing the BOP on behalf of a prisoner at MCC who had had his fingertip chopped off by a cell door. Rather than being placed in an ambulance, alleges Laufer, the man was chained at his ankles and wrists and brought to the hospital by correctional officers, bleeding profusely.
"I think its a human rights violation, Laufer says of the medical care at MCC. I think its an Eighth Amendment violationdeliberate indifference.
There are also claims of extreme brutality by those who are held at the MCC. In September of 2017, Laufer filed a lawsuit alleging that after 35-year-old Roberto Grant was beaten to death at MCC in May 2015, the prison staff tried to cover it up, by telling his Grants family hed died of an overdose.
Gothamist reviewed a copy of the autopsy performed on Grant by the New York City Medical Examiner, which stated the father of two had suffered blunt force injuries of the head, neck, torso, and extremities and had no detectable traces of drugs in his system.
You have someone whos beaten to death in MCC, and there are cameras everywhere, Laufer said. Theres not an inch of that facility that is not surveilled. No one cares.
The case is ongoing, and Laufer recently lost a motion to compel the government to release documents and other materials relevant to Grants death. In court filings, the Department of Justice has denied wrongdoing.
The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to written inquiries about this incident or other allegations laid out in this story. A spokesperson for the BOP also declined to comment.
Several prisoners told Gothamist that they had been physically assaulted by staff. I ended up catching a new charge in MCC for defending myself, said Fabian Morrison in a letter. A crazy officer attacked me and I defended myself, Im the seventh inmate he put hands on. He is really fucked up in the head from the military.
In the past fifteen years, at least one correctional officer at MCC has been convicted of beating an inmate, and at least three guards have been found guilty of sexually assaulting prisoners. In 2016, a former correctional officer at MCC was sentenced to seven years behind bars for raping a woman detained at the facility. Even in my dreams, I am suffering flashbacks where Im repeatedly raped, the woman told the court. And this past April, a guard was arrested for taking bribes to smuggle food, alcohol and cellphones into the facility."