epa07343717 A view of the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a federal prison used mostly for pre-trial detention, in Brooklyn, New York, USA, 04 February 2019. Following a fire at the prison on 27 January 2019 many of the people detained in facility reported they faced numerous days without electricity or heating during some of the coldest days of the year and this lead to weekend protests and the filing of lawsuit by the group called Federal Defenders of New York, on behalf of clients held there. EPA/JUSTIN LANE