Coverage dated August 17, 2023

New York City suggests housing migrants in infamous jail closed after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide

Headline from NBC 6 South Florida

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans.

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  1. NBC News

    NYC suggests housing migrants in jail shuttered after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide (opens NBC News)

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    Mayor Eric Adams has struggled to find housing for the estimated 100,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since last year.

  2. NBC 6 South Florida

    New York City suggests housing migrants in infamous jail closed after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide (opens NBC 6 South Florida)

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    New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans.

  3. amNewYork

    NYC considers converting former federal jail, once holding notorious inmates including Epstein, for housing migrants (opens amNewYork)

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    New York City officials want to ease pressure on overcrowded homeless shelters by housing migrants in a federal jail that once held mobsters, terrorists and

  4. Bangor Daily News

    New York City suggests housing migrants in jail shuttered after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide (opens Bangor Daily News)

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    ALBANY, N.Y (AP) — New York City officials want to ease pressure on overcrowded homeless shelters by housing migrants in a federal jail that once held

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