“Every now and then a crisis hits our jails and prisons, and they receive a lot of attention… Now we are experiencing COVID-19. Hundreds of people at Rikers are positive—a rate at least six times that of New York State. The rate is surely as high at the MCC and MDC, but we don’t know because they aren’t testing … After the COVID-19 crisis passes, I plan to redouble my efforts to expose problems and solve them … We’ll press for real remedies and action in suits moving forward. In recent weeks, we’ve also received attention from elected officials. We’ll press them for laws that would actually hold prison officials accountable for their failure to provide humane conditions. And for the past month, the lawyers in my office have been spending long hours trying to get their most vulnerable clients released. They are doing extraordinary work trying to tell the real stories of what is going on inside the jails. We’ll need to keep telling these stories after the crisis passes – to judges, to lawmakers, and to the public – in the hope that, someday, someone will truly listen.”
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