Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, can reasonably expect two things to happen as they get accustomed to their new day-to-day life at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York: They will be uncomfortable and kept out of harm’s way. The federal Bureau of Prisons doesn’t comment on current inmates, but Mangel said Maduro and Flores are likely housed in a segregated area, not with the general population — in separate cells and alone. “His case, he is a security risk in general population,” Mangel said. In their first court appearance in New York Monday, Maduro and Flores pleaded not guilty to drug and weapons charges and chose, at least for now, not to fight their detention. Hurwitz expects that the security protocols in place are with the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein top of mind.

Source: CNN January 08, 2026 05:56 UTC