When the Brooklyn Detention Complex reopened last week, articles sprung up in many New York publications quoting residents expressing their fears of having men who broke the law housed so close to their doorstep. However, [...] »
I recently spent my Saturday in jail with a few hundred of my neighbors. The jail in question was the Brooklyn Detention Complex, formerly the Brooklyn House of Detention, or “House of D,” a ten-story gray hulk that sits on … »
Visiting the Brooklyn House of Detention --- technically known as the Brooklyn Detention Complex and soon to reopen after an eight-and-a-half-year refurbishment --- during yesterday's open house was not exactly a fun weekend outing. The staff could not... »
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Kate BriqueletThe Brooklyn PaperBoerum Hill residents fear their lawns and planters will once again become stash spots for drugs, knives and other jail contraband when the Brooklyn House of Detention reopens next ... »
The Department of Corrections says it will start putting inmates into the House of Detention on Atlantic and Smith next month, according to the Daily News, and eventually fill all 759 of the facility’s beds over the coming year. According to the story,... »
The Brooklyn Detention Center closed its doors in 2003. But now, it has re-opened to help relieve crowding at Rikers Island. The Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn has changed dramatically over the past nine years. What used to be parking lots and gas sta... »
