This month, a serious gang fight broke out in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC Brooklyn) in Brooklyn, New York, which is known for frequent violent incidents. People familiar with the matter said that several inmates were stabbed and scratched, and the prison was placed on lockdown for several days.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons recently confirmed that the fight occurred at about 7:25 a.m. local time on September 6 at the federal prison in the Sunset Park neighborhood.
▲Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, New York
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Donald Murphy said: “Some detainees have received treatment in the prison and their injuries are minor; others have serious injuries and need to be transferred to external medical facilities.” He also said that no prison officers were injured in the process of quelling the conflict.
Murphy declined to disclose the number of injuries or hospitalizations, citing the ongoing investigation. Sources said the conflict took place on the seventh floor of the west building when members of the Trinitarios gang clashed with another gang and at least 20 people were involved in the fight.
This prison currently houses Luigi Mangione, who shot and killed the CEO of UnitedHealth Insurance Company, and Venezuelan President Maduro, who is forcibly controlled by the United States. The outside world generally believes that Maduro is isolated from ordinary prisoners for safety reasons; Mangione was also isolated in the early days of his imprisonment, and was later transferred to a protection unit and can now move with people in the same unit. None of the available reports indicate that the two men were involved in the brawl.
▲Luigi Mangione
The Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center is known for its harsh conditions and frequent violence. In the summer of 2024, two bloody conflicts broke out in the prison, in which prisoners Uriel White and Edwin Cordero died. Since then, the Federal Bureau of Prisons established an “emergency operations team” that same year to deal with staffing shortages, contraband and other problems in prisons.
