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This document is a court transcript from June 15, 2021, in which a judge expresses profound frustration with the inhumane and mismanaged conditions at the MCC and MDC federal prisons in New York. The judge describes the facilities as being 'run by morons' and lurching from crisis to crisis, such as gun smuggling related to Jeffrey Epstein. While addressing an inmate, Ms. Days, the judge states that the conditions she endured were disgusting and inhuman, and wishes they could release her but is legally bound to a sentence of at least five years.
People (6)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| The Speaker (Judge) | chief judge of this court |
The speaker of the transcribed text, expressing frustration about prison conditions and addressing Ms. Days during a ...
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| Attorney General | Attorney General |
Mentioned as someone the judge wishes had heard the presentation about prison conditions.
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| head of the Bureau of Prisons | head of the Bureau of Prisons |
Mentioned as someone the judge wishes had heard the presentation about prison conditions.
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| leader of the Congress | leader of the Congress |
Mentioned as someone the judge wishes had heard the presentation about prison conditions.
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| Ms. Days | Inmate / Defendant |
The person being addressed by the judge, who has recounted stories about prison conditions and is being sentenced.
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| Jeffrey Epstein | Inmate |
Mentioned in the context of a crisis at the correctional facilities involving gun smuggling.
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Organizations (6)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Bureau of Prisons | government agency |
Mentioned as the agency whose head the judge wishes had heard the presentation.
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| Congress | government agency |
Mentioned as the body whose leader the judge wishes had heard the presentation.
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| MCC | correctional facility |
Metropolitan Correctional Center, a federal correctional facility in New York with poor conditions.
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| MDC | correctional facility |
Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal correctional facility in New York with poor conditions.
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| this Court | judiciary |
The court where the speaker served as chief judge and is making a finding on prison conditions.
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| SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. | company |
Listed at the bottom of the document, likely the court reporting service that created the transcript.
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Timeline (2 events)
2021-06-15
A judge is speaking during a court proceeding, likely a sentencing for Ms. Days, and is commenting on the inhumane conditions of the federal prisons where she was held.
A court in the Southern District
A crisis involving gun smuggling to Jeffrey Epstein occurred at one of the federal correctional facilities.
MCC or MDC in New York
Locations (2)
| Location | Context |
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The location of the MCC and MDC federal correctional facilities.
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Used as a point of comparison for the inhumane conditions at the MCC and MDC.
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Relationships (1)
The judge is presiding over Ms. Days' case and sentencing her. The judge expresses sympathy for the conditions Ms. Days has endured in prison but is bound by law in sentencing.
Key Quotes (3)
"The single thing in the five years that I was chief judge of this court that made me the craziest was my complete and utter inability to do anything meaningful about the conditions at the MCC, especially at the MCC and the MDC, two federal correctional facilities located in the City of New York that are run by morons, which wardens cycle repeatedly, never staying for longer than a few months or even a year."Source
— The Speaker (Judge)
(The judge expressing extreme frustration over the mismanagement and poor conditions of federal prisons in New York.)
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"It is the finding of this Court that the conditions to which she was subjected are as disgusting, inhuman as anything I've heard about any Colombian prison, but more so because we're supposed to be better than that."Source
— The Speaker (Judge)
(The judge's official finding on the conditions endured by Ms. Days.)
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"So if I could, Ms. Days, I would say you've been punished enough, and I would send you home, but I can't. The law doesn't allow me to sentence you to less than five years."Source
— The Speaker (Judge)
(The judge directly addressing the defendant, Ms. Days, expressing a desire for leniency but being constrained by sentencing laws.)
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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 300 Filed 06/15/21 Page 23 of 32 19
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1 entirely too many stories like the one she just recounted on
2 the record.
3 I wish that the Attorney General, whoever, head of the
4 Bureau of Prisons and the leader of the Congress, would have
5 heard that presentation. The single thing in the five years
6 that I was chief judge of this court that made me the craziest
7 was my complete and utter inability to do anything meaningful
8 about the conditions at the MCC, especially at the MCC and the
9 MDC, two federal correctional facilities located in the City of
10 New York that are run by morons, which wardens cycle
11 repeatedly, never staying for longer than a few months or even
12 a year. So there is no continuity, there is no leadership,
13 there is no ability to get anything done. They lurch from
14 crisis to crisis, from the gun smuggling to Jeffrey Epstein,
15 none of which is the fault of Ms. Days or any of the other
16 inmates I have sentenced or will sentence.
17 It is the finding of this Court that the conditions to
18 which she was subjected are as disgusting, inhuman as anything
19 I've heard about any Colombian prison, but more so because
20 we're supposed to be better than that.
21 So if I could, Ms. Days, I would say you've been
22 punished enough, and I would send you home, but I can't. The
23 law doesn't allow me to sentence you to less than five years.
24 Some of what you've endured has been endured by prisoners even
25 in well-run facilities, some of it.
2 the record.
3 I wish that the Attorney General, whoever, head of the
4 Bureau of Prisons and the leader of the Congress, would have
5 heard that presentation. The single thing in the five years
6 that I was chief judge of this court that made me the craziest
7 was my complete and utter inability to do anything meaningful
8 about the conditions at the MCC, especially at the MCC and the
9 MDC, two federal correctional facilities located in the City of
10 New York that are run by morons, which wardens cycle
11 repeatedly, never staying for longer than a few months or even
12 a year. So there is no continuity, there is no leadership,
13 there is no ability to get anything done. They lurch from
14 crisis to crisis, from the gun smuggling to Jeffrey Epstein,
15 none of which is the fault of Ms. Days or any of the other
16 inmates I have sentenced or will sentence.
17 It is the finding of this Court that the conditions to
18 which she was subjected are as disgusting, inhuman as anything
19 I've heard about any Colombian prison, but more so because
20 we're supposed to be better than that.
21 So if I could, Ms. Days, I would say you've been
22 punished enough, and I would send you home, but I can't. The
23 law doesn't allow me to sentence you to less than five years.
24 Some of what you've endured has been endured by prisoners even
25 in well-run facilities, some of it.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
(212) 805-0300
(212) 805-0300
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