| Amid Coronavirus EDNY
Requires Reports From MCC and MDC and
Cooperators GEO Jail
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 2 – The Federal
courts continue to try to
adapt to the Coronavirus
pandemic, including by
requiring public reports from
prisons about COVID-19.
This is from the
April 2 administrative order
of Eastern District of New
York Chief Judge Roslynn
R. Mauskopt: "ROSLYNN R.
MAUSKOPF, Chief
Judge
In response to the
coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic,
counsel for defendants
detained at three facilities
have filed and continue to
file applications for release
in individual cases pending in
this District. A primary
basis cited in each of these
applications is the general
risk of contracting COVID-19
as a result of the defendant’s
continued confinement,
together with additional
information specific to the
particular defendant and
case. Defendants in
cases pending in this District
are primarily detained at the
Metropolitan Detention Center
Brooklyn (MDC Brooklyn) and
the Metropolitan Correctional
Center New York (MCC New
York), both operated by the
Federal Bureau of Prisons
(BOP), and the Queens
Detention Facility (QDF), a
private facility operated by
the GEO Group, Inc. under
contract with the United
States Marshals Service (USMS)
to house primarily pre-trial
detainees.
In order to provide the Judges
of this Court and the parties
in these cases with current,
consistent, and accurate
information to assess the
common issue underlying these
applications, it is
hereby
ORDERED, that the Wardens of
MDC Brooklyn, MCC New York,
and QDF provide to this Court
in writing, twice weekly on
the schedule below, a status
report concerning the
incidence of infection of
COVID-19 at each facility and
the measures undertaken to
mitigate the spread of
COVID-19 within each facility,
to include, but not limited
to, the following
information: 1)
Protocols for screening and
testing inmates, staff, and
other entering or leaving each
facility; 2) The number of
inmates tested and the number
of positive tests; 3) The
number of staff and/or others
testing positive; 4) All
efforts undertaken to mitigate
the spread of COVID-19 both
generally, and in response to
any symptomatic inmate(s)
and/or positive test(s);
and it is
FURTHER ORDERED, that the
first such status report shall
be submitted electronically to
the undersigned on behalf of
the Court by 12:00 noon on
Friday, April 3, 2020." Watch
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On March 27,
Inner City Press attended and
reported on a bond hearing
conducted by Chief Judge
Colleen McMahon of the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
at which Judge McMahon said
she had been experimenting
earlier in the day with video
technology, but had yet to
find the right one.
In the SDNY, she
will handle Part 1 appeals on
Mondays. The next four days of
each week will, for now, be
covered by Judges Broderick,
Castel, Caproni and Rakoff.
SDNY District Judge Analisa
Torres held two telephonic
proceedings on March 30, which
Inner City Press covered, at
which she said video had not
been possible. This was
repeated, at length, by SDNY
District Judge Mary Kay
Vyskocil on April 2. Watch
this site.
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