Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has traded his palatial Bahamas bunker for a bunk bed as he transitions from luxe to lockup.
Bankman-Fried is staying at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, one of the nation's most notorious correctional facilities. Conditions at the jailhouse, where Bankman-Fried has resided for six weeks since losing his bail, are a far cry from the former billionaire's old Caribbean stomping grounds: The internet is slow, the living quarters dirty and the cafeteria offerings slim, his lawyers have argued.
Former residents of the famous facility and their lawyers, however, have said there's much more to tell about the notorious lockup. They’ve likened conditions at the jailhouse to those faced by"prisoners of war" and Hannibal Lecter in the horror movie"The Silence of the Lambs."MDC Brooklyn is a large prison complex encompassing two buildings and housing more than 1,600 male and female prisoners, many of whom still await trial.
Others who have previously served short stints at the jailhouse include Epstein-accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and pharma bro Martin Shkreli.Inmates wake up at 6 a.m., and must make their beds, mop the floor and tend to their trash, an orientation from the facility shows. From there, inmates like Bankman-Fried might go to work around the facility, serving as prep cooks in the jail's kitchen, providing janitorial services throughout the complex or assisting at the facility's maintenance shop.