Suffolk County will make significant infrastructure repairs to two jails, hire an environmental health professional and pay $18 million to current and former detainees and inmates, among other provisions, to settle a longstanding class-action suit that called out deplorable conditions at the correctional facilities, according to a preliminary settlement.
The suit, filed in 2012 following an initial 2011 claim by 20 inmates, alleged that inmates at the Riverhead Correctional Facility and the Yaphank Correctional Facility, most of whom had not been convicted, were being forced to live in “squalid, unhygienic, and hazardous living conditions” brought about by repeated exposure to human waste, including while showering. It detailed frequent and continued exposure to mold, freezing temperatures and vermin.
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