In Arguments, Judge Hears Competing Versions Of How Brooklyn’s Federal Jail Worked To Contain Coronavirus

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Beth Fertig
WNYC News | May 13, 2020

A federal judge heard nearly 12 hours of arguments about whether Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center failed to adequately protect its nearly 1,700 inmates from COVID-19.

A class action lawsuit with three named plaintiffs is seeking a preliminary injunction to force the release of all medically vulnerable inmates, and take additional steps to contain the coronavirus in the federal jail. A similar suit was recently filed against the federal jail in Manhattan.

Read more at Gothamist. 

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