‘Disruptive’ detainees treated for ‘minor injuries’ in Miami federal jail incident, authorities say

MIAMI – A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed with Local 10’s Christina Vazquez Wednesday that “multiple incarcerated individuals became disruptive astatine the Federal Detention Center Miami” astatine astir 5 p.m. Tuesday.

FDC Miami is an administrative information national detention halfway astatine 33 NE Fourth St. successful downtown Miami.

Responding employees said they were capable to incorporate and isolate the incidental and that “at nary clip was the receiving and discharge country compromised.”

While nary employees were injured during the incident, Benjamin O’Cone, an worker with the Office of Public Affairs for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, added that “some incarcerated individuals were medically assessed and treated for insignificant injuries astatine the facility.”

Local 10 News has reached retired to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to inquire if the individuals progressive successful the incidental are ICE detainees and however galore detainees are presently successful the national agency’s attraction astatine FDC Miami.

BOP told Local 10 News, “for privacy, safety, and information reasons, we bash not sermon the conditions of confinement for immoderate inmate oregon radical of inmates.”

An lawyer with a lawsuit astatine FDC Miami told Local 10 News aboriginal Wednesday greeting that she received a announcement that stated, “All visiting is temporarily connected clasp contiguous owed to a plumbing contented affecting the visiting room.“

Local 10 News visited the national detention center, wherever an worker said that the contented has since been resolved.

A announcement connected the BOP website reads: “All visiting astatine this installation has been suspended until further notice.”

Scott Taylor, a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson, released this connection to Local 10 News connected Wednesday afternoon:

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