The convicted gunman in the 2002 murder of Hip-Hop legend Jam Master Jay has been hospitalized after being stabbed 18 times during a prison gang fight at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Twenty-three inmates at the troubled federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, have been charged with crimes ranging from smuggling weapons in a Doritos bag to the stabbing last month of a man convicted in the killing of hip-hop legend Jam Master Jay.

The fight involving Karl Jordan broke out Saturday afternoon at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.

One of the men convicted in the 2002 murder of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay in New York City was stabbed at a Brooklyn lockup, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Federal prosecutors announced the charges Thursday amid a crackdown on violence and dysfunction at the Metropolitan Detention Center, the only federal jail in New York City. The facility’s ...