New York City’s largest legal aid nonprofit is ramping up its efforts for a federal takeover of the Big Apple’s troubled jail system.
New York City’s largest legal aid nonprofit is ramping up its efforts for a federal takeover of the Big Apple’s troubled jail system — as violence at the hands of corrections officers spiked to the highest levels since 2016.
The report, which was released late last month, found that the use-of-force rate this year was more than double what it was six years ago — 10.24 per 100 inmates versus 3.96 in 2016 —“The consent judgment was entered more than seven years ago, and to date, the City has not substantially complied with the core provisions of that judgment and the four remedial orders that followed,” Kayla Simpson, staff attorney with the Prisoners’ Rights Project at The Legal Aid Society, said in a statement.
The letter, filed in federal court Monday, says the nonprofit will file its request for an outside agency to run the city jails on Dec. 15, the earliest date the lawyers previously agreed it could be filed.
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