FILE PHOTO: The Metropolitan Correctional Center (C) is seen next to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (R) November 17, 2009. REUTERS/Chip East
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wealthy American financier Jeffrey Epstein, charged with sex trafficking in underage girls, is now confined to a cell in a fortress-like concrete tower jail that has been criticized by inmates and lawyers for harsh conditions.
After his arrest on Saturday at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport on arrival from Paris in his private plane, Epstein was likely put in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) in lower Manhattan, according to defence lawyers and others familiar with the jail.
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