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Brooklyn Today
ON THIS DAY IN 1923, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published a front-page article titled “Brooklyn Traffic Court Conditions are ‘Disgraceful.’”
The article focused on the poor conditions at the Brooklyn Traffic Court detention pens at 182 Clermont Ave.
“There is only a small room for the detention of prisoners, with a decent capacity of not more than 10. At times, there are as many as 40 men crowded into this place, a condition which cannot be characterized as anything but disgraceful,” the Eagle reported.