The Department of Justice is asking its internal inspector to investigate power and heating outages that left many inmates at a Brooklyn jail in cold and dark cells as temperatures fell below freezing in New York City.
The announcement came in response to a request for an investigation by Democratic Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velázquez of New York and other Democrats.
In a statement Wednesday, the DOJ asked its watchdog, the Office of the Inspector General, to “undertake a review” and determine whether the Bureau of Prisons “responded appropriately” to the heat and power failures at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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