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The Justice Department will shut down the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan “at least temporarily” to deal with problems including security breakdowns and aging infrastructure after the prison came under scrutiny following the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who committed suicide there
in 2019 while awaiting trial.The department said it would shut the jail, dubbed by the media as"Guantanamo of New York,” in order to address issues at MCC NY “, according to AP, most of whom will likely be sent to a federal jail in Brooklyn.The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from
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