Sam Bankman-Fried Is Unlikely to Get Adderall in Brooklyn Jail

Life at Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center has proved challenging for disgraced former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

The federal detention center is the largest in the US, housing some 1,600 people who are awaiting trial for their alleged crimes. Politicians in New York have decried the “utterly inhumane conditions” at MDC and have asked the federal government for reforms.

Bankman-Fried’s attorneys say he’s been subsisting on “bread and water” as well as a little peanut butter, and that requests to fill Adderall prescriptions to treat his ADHD and depression have been ignored. They have also asked ...