LAS, Brooklyn Defender Services, and Milbank LLP recently filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Correction (DOC) over its “failure” to provide people with access to medical care while locked up.

“New York City’s jails are in a full-blown humanitarian crisis, resulting in indescribable suffering and at least twelve deaths in 2021, including at least five people who died from suicide,” said Veronica Vela, supervising attorney with LAS Prisoners’ Rights Project in a statement.

“DOC can no longer deprive our clients of their right to medical care, and if the department is unable to guarantee that right, then the court must immediately consider releasing people.”

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