"True Hell": How are President Maduro and his wife being treated at a notorious detention center?

 Recently CNN.co.jp reported the following:

「真の地獄」　悪名高い拘置所に収容のマドゥロ大統領夫妻、待遇は

2026.01.08 Thu posted at 11:01 JST

（CNN） 米国で麻薬関連などの罪に問われたベネズエラのニコラス・マドゥロ大統領と妻のシリア・フロレス氏。豪華な宮殿暮らしから一転、米ニューヨークの拘置所での生活を強いられている。

収容されているのはブルックリン区の悪名高いメトロポリタン拘置所。「あそこは真の地獄だ」と連邦刑務所に詳しいコンサルタントのサム・マンゲル氏は言う。「暖房はほとんどない。全員にウールの毛布が1枚支給される。金属製のベッドの上で、非常に薄い2インチ（約5センチ）のマットレスと枕で寝る」

メトロポリタン拘置所、通称MDCでは、停電や人員不足、収容者の苦情が後を絶たない。

CNNは、マドゥロ夫妻の待遇については確認できていない。看守にも夫妻の代理人弁護士にもコメントを求めたが返答はなかった。

マドゥロ夫妻は一般の受刑者とは切り離された区画で、別々の独房に収容されている可能性が大きいとマンゲル氏は推測する。

マンゲル氏は拘置所のマドゥロ氏を「治安上のリスク」と位置付ける。「同拘置所に収容されているギャングメンバーや麻薬密輸組織のメンバーが、彼のことをどう思うか分からない。従って一般の収容者と一緒にすれば、同拘置所にとってとてつもない治安上のリスクになるだろう」

マドゥロ夫妻は米軍によって3日に拘束されるまで、広大な大統領公邸のミラフロレス宮殿で暮らしていた。

今は凶悪犯罪や注目の事件にかかわった被告らと同じ拘置所にいる。

弁護士も収容者も「吐き気がする」「ゾッとする」と口をそろえるMDCは、真に危険な場所でもある。2024年には収容者2人が別の収容者によって殺害される事件も発生した。

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"True Hell": How are President Maduro and his wife being treated at a notorious detention center?

(CNN) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were facing drug-related and other charges in the United States, had been forced to live in a New York detention center, a stark departure from their luxurious palace life.

They were being held at Brooklyn's notorious Metropolitan Detention Center. "It's true hell," said Sam Mangel, a consultant specializing in federal prisons. "There's barely any heating. Everyone is given one wool blanket. They slept on metal beds with very thin two-inch mattresses and pillows."

At the Metropolitan Detention Center, also known as MDC, power outages, staff shortages, and inmate complaints constantly happened.

CNN was unable to confirm the treatment of the Maduros. Neither the guards nor the couple's lawyers responded to requests for comment.

Mangel speculated that Maduro and his wife were likely being held in separate cells in a section away from the general inmate population.

Mangel characterized Maduro as a "security risk" in detention. "We don't know what the gang members and drug traffickers held there think about him. Therefore, placing him with the general inmate population would be a tremendous security risk for the detention center."

Until their arrest by U.S. forces on the 3rd, Maduro and his wife lived in the huge Miraflores Palace, the presidential residence.

They were now detained in the same detention center as defendants involved in violent crimes and high-profile cases.

The MDC, described by lawyers and inmates alike as "sickening" and "horrifying," was also a truly dangerous place. In 2024, two inmates were murdered by other inmates.

              So, Maduro and his wife who are facing drug-related and other charges in the United States have been forced to live in a New York detention center after being arrested by U.S. forces on the 3^rd. Apparently, this arrest will  impact the international communities in many respects: the upholding of international laws, the geopolitics in south America, the reliability of air defense systems of individual countries, and the future of oil supply globally etc.