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The crisis at a troubled Brooklyn federal jail has drawn the attention of more than a half-dozen judges, with one planning to tour the jail on Tuesday to investigate complaints of freezing temperatures and darkness that followed a heating system breakdown and power failure in the facility.

Another judge ordered the jail, known as the Metropolitan Detention Center, to allow inmates to begin meeting with their lawyers. Legal visits were canceled last week, leading to claims that inmates’ constitutional rights to counsel were being violated.

At least four other federal judges, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, were said to be calling hearings to examine complaints of deteriorating conditions at the jail, which holds more than 1,600 federal inmates, most of whom are awaiting trial and have not been convicted of a crime.

The judges’ concerns came after reports that inmates had been locked down in frigid and dark cells, huddling under blankets, in the jail, which sits along the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.