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| No criminal charges in handling of detainees at NYC center |
| By CNN |
| Published: 05/04/2004 |
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Federal prosecutors have decided not to bring criminal charges relating to allegations of abuse of people arrested in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks and housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City. Spokesmen for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said both the attorney's office and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department have decided not to bring any charges after conducting investigations. Both groups launched probes after the Justice Department's inspector general issued a scathing report last June in which detainees alleged they suffered physical abuse at the Brooklyn facility. In one report, a man said he was repeatedly slammed against walls while his arm was twisted behind his back. Several detainees also told investigators they were pulled from cars and slammed into walls when they arrived at the detention center. Since the Bureau of Prisons has been told there will be no criminal charges, its spokesman, Dan Dunne, said bureau officials have "promptly undertaken an investigation that follows up on the evidence already compiled by the Office of Inspector General trying to build a case that will withstand scrutiny in an administrative hearing or judicial proceeding." He would not describe who might be the target of such an investigation or how long it might last. Metropolitan Detention Center was one of two facilities where the majority of the detainees arrested as part of the broad September 11 investigation was held and was one of the focuses of complaints about detainee mistreatment. On Monday, the latest lawsuit alleging detainee abuse was filed in U.S. District Court against Attorney General John Ashcroft, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Kathleen Sawyer, as well as a number of former and current Metropolitan Detention Center officials. The Bureau of Prisons had no reaction to the latest lawsuit but emphasized any allegations of misconduct would be taken seriously and thoroughly investigated. At least three lawsuits have now been filed against various Justice Department and prison officials alleging abuse at various facilities because of how some of the 762 immigration detainees arrested as part of the September 11 investigation were treated. |
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