GUIDES
Guides: prison mail
Official sources
- BOP · Inmate communications: mail rules
What a federal facility accepts in the mail and what it rejects.
- BOP · Program Statement 5265.14, Correspondence (PDF)
The full federal correspondence policy.
- BOP · Inmate Locator
Find a person's register number and facility by name.
- BOP · MDC Brooklyn
The facility page, with its own mailing address and rules.
- BOP · MDC Brooklyn handbook (PDF)
The facility's own handbook, including mail.
- USPS · First-Class Mail
How the letters travel.
Guides and case status
- Where is Nicolás Maduro being held? Charges, court dates and case timeline
Nicolás Maduro has been held at MDC Brooklyn since January 2026. The charges, the next court dates and the full case timeline, with sources.
- Where is Hugo "El Pollo" Carvajal? Guilty plea, pending sentence and the Maduro case
Hugo "El Pollo" Carvajal pleaded guilty in New York in 2025, in the same New York case as Maduro. His sentencing has no date. Timeline with sources.
- Alex Saab pleaded guilty in Miami: what he admitted, what comes next, and when he is sentenced
Alex Saab pleaded guilty to money laundering on September 15, 2026 in Miami, agreed to cooperate and forfeit $195 million. Sentencing: January 20, 2027. Timeline with sources.
- Is Diosdado Cabello in custody? No: he is still a minister and the US reward stands
Diosdado Cabello is not detained. He remains Venezuela's interior minister, charged in New York in the same New York case as Maduro, with a US reward of up to $25 million.
- Where is Padrino López? Out of Defense, now agriculture minister and wanted by the US
Vladimir Padrino López is not in custody. He left the Defense Ministry in March 2026 and has been agriculture minister since April. The US offers up to $15 million for him.
- Delcy Rodríguez, acting president: since when, what she has done, and her Trump meeting
Delcy Rodríguez has governed Venezuela as acting president since Maduro was captured in January 2026. In September she met Trump in New York. Timeline with sources.
- Jorge Rodríguez: National Assembly president and the new 32-justice Supreme Court
Jorge Rodríguez heads Venezuela's National Assembly in 2026. The Assembly reformed the Supreme Court law to pick 32 justices but on September 23 did not move on the committee. Timeline with sources.
- Where is Cilia Flores being held? House-arrest request, health and court dates
Cilia Flores remains in custody at MDC Brooklyn. What her lawyers asked for, why prosecutors oppose it, the health claims, and when the judge decides. With sources and a timeline.
- When are Venezuela's elections? What we know today
There is no date. Delcy Rodríguez told the UN there will be elections; the opposition demands a timetable and María Corina Machado as its candidate. Timeline with sources.
- Who is Judge Alvin Hellerstein? The judge in the Maduro and Cilia Flores case
Alvin K. Hellerstein, 92, is the New York federal judge presiding over the cases against Nicolás Maduro, Cilia Flores and Hugo "El Pollo" Carvajal. Who he is, what he has ruled, and the dates ahead.
- What is MDC Brooklyn, and how does its mail work
MDC Brooklyn is a federal pre-trial detention center. What it is, who is held there, how mail gets in, and what gets rejected.
- How to send a letter to a federal inmate in the U.S.
Address, paper, review, postage and realistic delivery expectations.
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