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Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, leaves court in New York, US, on Wednesday, July 26, 2023.Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg

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By Fola Akinnibi and stacy-marie ishmael

August 24, 2023 at 1:02 PM UTC

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Life at Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center has proved challenging for disgraced former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

The federal detention center is the largest in the US, housing some 1,600 people who are awaiting trial for their alleged crimes. Politicians in New York have decried the “utterly inhumane conditions” at MDC and have asked the federal government for reforms.