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The scandal-plagued federal jail where pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself is being shut down for an undisclosed period of time due to ongoing problems at the facility.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, located in lower Manhattan, has jailed a slew of notorious inmates, including Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernie Madoff, mafia hitman Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano and associates of Usama bin Laden.
In recent years, the jail has faced a number of controversies over its squalid conditions, chronic understaffing and rampant spread of coronavirus within its walls.
The facility, which currently houses less than half of its normal population with 223 inmates, will be shut down while it tries to fix those problems.
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