{"id":395145,"date":"2019-02-04T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lights-back-on-at-new-york-city-jail-but-prisoners-still-without-heat\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:45:12","slug":"lights-back-on-at-new-york-city-jail-but-prisoners-still-without-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lights-back-on-at-new-york-city-jail-but-prisoners-still-without-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights Back On at New York City Jail, But Prisoners Still Without Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 1,600 prisoners at a Brooklyn federal detention center were forced to endure freezing temperatures during last week\u2019s polar vortex, with no heat, no light, no hot water for showers and no hot meals. Demonstrators rallied throughout the weekend to protest the conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center, which is run by the Bureau of Prisons. Prisoners communicated with protesters by banging on the jail windows. On Sunday afternoon, some of the protesters, including family members of those incarcerated, were pepper-sprayed by guards. Democracy Now! was there on the ground. By 6:30 pm, officials said electricity was restored. We speak with Brad Lander, a New York city councilmember who spoke with prisoners and prison officials this weekend.<\/p>\n

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