Freezing Jail Cells, Broken Showers, and Covid-19 (The Nation)

The Nation, April 13, 2020

Freezing Jail Cells, Broken Showers, and Covid-19

“Phillip Desgranges, a senior staff attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union and member of the New York City Bar Association‘s Task Force on Mass Incarceration, described reports about conditions inside the MDC as “very worrisome.” He added that “they may be considered a constitutional harm,” which means that the conditions inside parts of the MDC may be so bad that they constitute a violation of the inmates’ constitutional rights, specifically the Eighth Amendment’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment.”

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