A federal judge found New York City in contempt on Wednesday over conditions in its city jails, saying things have only worsened in the nine years since the city settled accusations of abuse and violence.
The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, in Manhattan issued a written ruling finding the city in contempt over 18 separate contempt claims.
The ruling stemmed from litigation that began in 2012 with accusations by the Legal Aid Society and others that the city’s Department of Correction had engaged in a pattern of excessive and unnecessary force in city jails.
Despite a settlement and consent decree agreed to in October 2015, the judge says conditions have worsened over the last decade.
“The use of force rate and other rates of violence, self-harm, and deaths in custody are demonstrably worse than when the Consent Judgment went into effect,” she wrote.
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