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NEW YORK (AP) — The Brook­lyn jail hold­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro is a fa­cil­i­ty so trou­bled, some judges have re­fused to send peo­ple there even as it has housed such fa­mous in­mates as mu­sic stars R Kel­ly and Sean “Did­dy” Combs.

Opened in the ear­ly 1990s, the Met­ro­pol­i­tan De­ten­tion Cen­ter, or MDC Brook­lyn, cur­rent­ly hous­es about 1,300 in­mates.

It’s the rou­tine land­ing spot for peo­ple await­ing tri­al in fed­er­al courts in Man­hat­tan and Brook­lyn, hold­ing al­leged gang­sters and drug traf­fick­ers along­side some peo­ple ac­cused of white col­lar crimes.