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Conditions on Riker's Island Was Argued In
SDNY Now Preliminary Injunction Denied
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 16 – Several Federal
lawsuits about prisoners'
conditions in Riker's Island
amid the COVID pandemic have
been consolidated.
On
February 10, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Katherine Polk Failla held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
The City's
lawyer said that while hand
sanitizer might taste bad, the
alcohol in it were tempting as
an intoxicant.
The retort was
that just because a prisoner
might use clothing to hang
himself, doesn't mean all
prisoners must be
naked. Judge
Failla said she will reflect
and issue a ruling soon.
On March 16 Judge
Failla summoned the parties
and Inner City Press covered
it. Judge Failla read out her
decision, which denied a
preliminary injunction but
said it was not an unadorned
approval of the prisons'
practices, and said the case
had a benefit and would
continue, now that the
injunction was denied.
The case is
Azor-El et al v. NYC
Department of Corrections et
al., 20-cv-3650 (Failla)
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