The proposed agreement will settle a class action Manhattan federal court suit that covers more than 4,000 people held in city jails from March 2018 to June 2022.
— including being confined to tight spaces and deprived of sunlight — at jails on Rikers Island and in Manhattan ahead of their trials.
Under the terms, the city will agree to pay $400 for each day the detainees were housed at “covered facilities,” including two facilities on Rikers and a housing area in the Manhattan Detention Complex, a downtown jail commonlyInmates who were determined to have a serious mental illness or who were under the age of 22 while detained in the conditions will be awarded an additional $50 per day, according to the proposed settlement filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court.
“No human being should be subjected to such highly isolated confinement, and certainly not without a hearing to challenge that placement,” Hecker said in a statement after the proposed deal was filed.
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