Amy Goodman
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Beneath the Epstein media spectacle, a human rights crisis in U.S. jails
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August 16, 2019
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2:59Now PlayingThe circumstances surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein have reignited interest around the conditions of pretrial detainees in the Manhattan Correctional Center in New York. "People held at MCC have filed legal motions for years talking about these conditions," says Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College. "The DOJ knew. U.S. attorneys knew. Judges knew. And either they turned the other way, or they allowed it." Theoharis hopes that the Epstein story will shine a light on conditions at MCC to bring about meaningful reform.
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