The Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York City (MCC New York) is a Federal Bureau of Prisons

Federal Bureau of Prisons

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Detention of suspects

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 center in downtown Manhattan in New York City

New York City

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, located on Park Row behind the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse at Foley Square

Foley Square

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MCC New York is an administrative facility designed to house federal prison

Federal prison

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ers of all security levels, including both male and female offenders appearing before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

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. It currently houses 750 inmates.

Notable inmates

Name	Number	Status	Details
Viktor Bout Viktor Bout Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is a convicted arms smuggler. A citizen of Russia, he was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and was extradited in 2010 to the United States to stand trial on terrorism charges after being accused of smuggling arms to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to use against...	91641-054	Held at MCC, NYC	International arms trafficker
Omar Abdel-Rahman Omar Abdel-Rahman Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman , commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", is a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who is currently serving a life sentence at the Butner Medical Center which is part of the Butner Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, United...	34892-054	Transferred to FCC, Butner	Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of "seditious conspiracy"
Jackie D'Amico Jackie D'Amico John "Jackie the Nose" D'Amico is a New York mobster that served as street boss of the Gambino crime family from 2005 to 2011. "Street boss" had been the family's number one position ever since official Boss Peter Gotti started serving a life sentence in prison.-Early life:D'Amico stands 5'11" ...			boss of the Gambino crime family
Raffaello Follieri	61143-054		Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri, who is accused of misappropriating a $50 million investment
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani	02476-748		Formerly held at MCC New York. Now transferred to ADX Florence
John Gotti John Gotti John Joseph Gotti, Jr was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti grew up in poverty. He and his brothers turned to a life of crime at an early age...	18261-053	Transferred and died on June 10, 2002 at the USMCFP	boss of the Gambino crime family
Frank Lucas Frank Lucas (drug lord) Frank Lucas is a former U.S. heroin dealer and organized crime boss who operated in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle...	18431-083	Released May 17, 1992	former heroin dealer and organized crime boss
Bernard Madoff Bernard Madoff Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff is a former American businessman, stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered to be the largest financial fraud in U.S...	61727-054	Held at MCC, NYC in 2009 and then transferred to FCC, Butner	operator of what has been described as the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse is a Somali pirate and the sole survivor of a group of four who attacked the MV Maersk Alabama and held the captain for ransom at gunpoint...	70636-054	Held at MCC, NYC	Somali pirate.
Faisal Shahzad Faisal Shahzad Faisal Shahzad is a Pakistani American who attempted the May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. On , 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan he confessed to 10 counts arising from the bombing attempt...	63510-054	Held at MCC, NYC in 2010	being tried in New York City for the May 1, 2010, Times Square car bomb attempt.
Ramzi Yousef Ramzi Yousef Ramzi Yousef was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot. In 1995, he was arrested at a guest house in Islamabad, by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and United States Diplomatic Security Service, then extradited to the...	03911-000	Held during his trial

External links

• MCC New York