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Advocates, Oversight Board Say Jail Staff is Failing on COVID Protocols

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 9/16/20

Department of Correction staff throughout the city’s jail facilities are failing to adhere to COVID-19 protocols, according to the Legal Aid Society and the Board of Correction. 

In a Sept. 4 letter to DOC Commissioner Cynthia Brann and the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice released earlier this week, an attorney with the public-interest organization said its staff has documented “a persistent failure” by department staff to wear masks and follow social-distancing guidelines. 

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