Manhattan's MCC may be guilty of human rights violations:

http://gothamist.com/2018/06/19/mcc_jail_human_rights_torture.php


"In a special jail-within-a-jail called 10 South, alleged terrorists, mobsters and drug kingpins are subject to some of the most brutal conditions of solitary confinement in the nation. This extreme isolation, reserved for those charged with the most heinous crimes, was described as “a punitive measure that is unworthy of the United States as a civilized democracy,”

"...the presence of rat and mice droppings throughout the floor, and states that he has “found rats in his bed and seen rats crawling on inmates while they slept.”

“[I]t can take 2 months to answer your sick call request.”

“El Chapo,” ... was extradited to the US to face charges as the head of the Sinaloa cartel, and locked up in 10 South.

“I been around in this world, almost a decade in a war zone…seen my part of torture and bad prisons, I was in jungles and deserts,” Shah wrote in an email from a federal prison in Indiana. “But the time I spent in 10 South took a large chunk of my soul, it is a very bleak place by design."