Rep. Velazquez Presses Bureau of Prisons on Coronavirus Response
April 08, 2020
April 08, 2020
WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, D-New York, issued the following news release:
Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez (D-NY) has written the Bureau of Prisons raising concerns with how the agency is responding to spread of coronavirus in the U.S. prison system. Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC Brooklyn), which is in the Congresswoman's district, is one of the largest facilities in the federal prison system. It is also where one of the first cases of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the . . .
Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez (D-NY) has written the Bureau of Prisons raising concerns with how the agency is responding to spread of coronavirus in the U.S. prison system. Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC Brooklyn), which is in the Congresswoman's district, is one of the largest facilities in the federal prison system. It is also where one of the first cases of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the . . .