Metropolitan Detention Center

Daniel McGowan: The FBI's Least Wanted

He did his time for burning down two Oregon lumber mills, but he's not exactly a free man

Despite State Ban, Federal Inmate Ronell Wilson Is Sent to Death Row

Daniel McGowan, Put In an Extreme Prison Isolation Unit For Writing Things, Loses Lawsuit Against Bureau of Prisons

A New York environmental activist stuck in an extreme isolation unit for writing letters and publishing articles -- and then re-jailed for writing about being put in that isolation unit in the first place -- has had his lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons dismissed, a development he calls ... More >>

Daniel McGowan Forbidden From Publishing Articles Without Permission

After more than seven years, the stack of dehumanizing and seemingly unconstitutional interactions between Daniel McGowan and the American prison system is now piled so high it is teetering over into a recursive mess of bleak and Kafkaesque absurdity. Last Monday, McGowan published a piece on the H ... More >>

Nancy Gonzalez, Federal Prison Guard, Busted for Sex With Convicted Cop Killer, Ronell Wilson

A female officer in a Brooklyn federal holding facility repeatedly had sex in the jail with a convicted cop killer and actually got pregnant by him, and had an affair with a second inmate while she was pregnant, federal prosecutors said today. The affair between the inmate, Ronell Wilson, and the ... More >>

Were the Newburgh 4 Really Out to Blow Up Synagogues? A Defendant Finally Speaks Out.

Was David Williams IV a terrorist? Or was he just out to make an easy score by scamming the government's informant?

Sexy Spy Anna Chapman Wanted Prince Harry and Prince William, Too

​What's up today with sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman? Glad you asked. As she's kept isolated in a cell in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the New York Post reveals that even British royals may not have been immune to her "sexy secret-agent wiles." Queen Elizabeth II, who's galliv ... More >>

Lawyer/Impersonator Dreier Wants Madoff-Style House Arrest, But For Free

Maybe you remember Marc S. Dreier, the high-powered lawyer who was jailed for criminal impersonation and later revealed to be in the habit of pretending to be what he was not, and to have money he didn't have, for the purposes of scamming $400 million. The New York Law Journal today reveals that D ... More >>

Daily Flog: 'No one convicted!'; nationwide search for Obama's mojo; McCain wallows in blood of Christ

The Invisible Men

Canadian inquiry may reveal CIA secrets on outsourcing torture

Analyze This

A Deadly Mobster's Pleading Letter for His Son

Exposé Energizes Court Battle

Ashcroft Could Face Reckoning on Detainee Mistreatment

Proceed With Caution

Lessons From a 9-11 Suspect Set Free

Black Hole in Brooklyn

A Prison Where Detainees Disappear

Close-Up On: Sunset Park

Endgame

INS Detainee Among Longest-Held Makes Plea for Release

INS Detainee Hits, U.S. Strikes Back

Canadian Attempts Freedom on Habeas Suit but Gets Charged

Sharpton Chooses Ferrer

Mayoral Hopeful Will Receive Official Nod Before Labor Day

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Inside Al Sharpton’s Family Reunion

The Unfinished Mayoralty

David Dinkins Bares His Soul About Mark Green, Al Sharpton, a Black-Latino Coalition, Crown Heights, Rudy Giuliani, and His Own Legacy

Jesse Jackson: The Desperate Hours

Inside the Civil Rights Power Struggle

Madonna Pal's Problems Persist

Friends Abandon Miami Club Owner