Citing increases in the number of coronavirus infections within a rising jail population as well as among correction staff, the Legal Aid Society is calling on city and state officials to release those inmates who are most susceptible to the illness.
Legal Aid attorneys said that with the jail population approaching pre-pandemic levels, data indicates that in-jail transmission of the virus is rising to “significant” levels.
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