Antonia Ashford is the associate warden at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. You may recognize the name as that is the prison that houses Ghislaine Maxwell. Police found Ashford's husband dead inside their NJ home early Monday morning.
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Prosecutors allege that Ashford shot her husband in the face. Officers found her husband Roderick Ashford unresponsive on the floor of their home. Antonia Ashford was charged with murder and weapons possession.
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The Metropolitan Detention Center has been getting several complaints about the conditions the inmates face. Of course we remember Ghislaine Maxwell who had complained about the conditions and overwhelming stench from the backed up sewage.
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Atonia Ashford's husband also worked for the Bureau of Prisons in New Jersey. In the winter of 2019, the Bureau of Prisons had poorly responded to the weeklong power outages in the Metropolitan Detention Center.