I am outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center where prisoners are without heat. The banging noise is them protesting for all of us to hear. They are without heat for days. This is in BROOKLYN. pic.twitter.com/h3UiVcR6VF
Shahana Hanif(@ HShahana) link
Nearly a thousand prisoners were due to a power failure in their cell with no heating, lighting or access to computers to their misery with their lawyers or families can share. The temperature was only 1 degree, reports news channel Sky. The 'inmates' bonkten on the walls and shins with the torches out of their windows to seek help.
Read also Extreme temperatures: -50 in the US and +50 in Australia Blankets The attorney-general of New York is furious about the state of affairs. “It is unacceptable, illegal, and inhumane for people to hold without facilities, access to their lawyers or medical care", tweeted she. Different people came on the streets to express their displeasure to be expressed. the
Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped last night generators, and blankets for the jail delivery. That was, however, not everybody's good earth. According to the critics, does De Blasio now more for prisoners than for 5,000 tenants in the Bronx that is now already two weeks without heating sit.