MDC Brooklyn federal jail has just two doctors on staff, hearing reveals

The troubled Metropolitan Detention Center jail in Brooklyn has just two doctors on staff to care for its more than 1,100 inmates, and an opening for a third physician has gone unfilled for nearly a decade. That detail about the city’s only federal jail — which has long been plagued by delays in medical treatment, missed medical appointments, and botched cancer diagnoses — came out in a Brooklyn Federal Court hearing last week about why an inmate didn’t get all his antibiotics while in solitary, shedding more light on the...