The federal detention center where millionaire financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was being held has had some notable lapses in security over the years.

Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, a variable-security lockup dubbed “Guantanamo of New York,” has housed a number of high-security inmates but has also suffered some serious security problems.

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