An administrative security metropolitan detention center.
The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico was activated in 1993, as a facility under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice. Its primary mission is to house pretrial and holdover inmates as a service to the U.S. District Courts and the U.S. Marshals Service for the Districts of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, MDC Guaynabo houses designated inmates that will be departing to the halfway house or directly home.