New York/IBNS, Jan. 5 -- Venezuelan PresidentNicolas Madurois now being held inside one of the most controversial and heavily criticised detention facilities in the United States - Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre (MDC), a jail long described by inmates, lawyers and judges alike as "hell on earth."

Multiple US media outlets report that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were transferred late Saturday to MDC Brooklyn after arriving in New York.

The pair are reportedly being held separately as they await their first court appearance in Manhattan federal court.

What is MDC Brooklyn?

Opened in the early 1990s, theMetropolitan Detention Centreis the primary federal jail serving New York City after the closure of Manhattan's Metropo...