Legal Aid Society condemns NYC jail system for unsanitary living conditions outlined in report
The Legal Aid Society is blasting the city’s Department of Correction for dangerous living conditions within its troubled jail system, including facilities on Rikers Island, as outlined in a newLess than 60% of intake and living areas within the city’s jail system are compliant with court sanitation orders, according to the report released by the Office of Compliance Consultants as part of its periodic monitoring of the DOC.
In addition to the presence of vermin, the jail system’s ventilation system and fire watch program are both being routinely neglected, according to the report. The monitor singled out the Robert N. Davoren Complex, a Bronx prison, for a vermin infestation and described arthropod larvae at another Bronx location, the George R. Vierno Center.
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