New data provided by the City shows that the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) failed to facilitate 6,792 medical appointments for incarcerated New Yorkers in January of 2022, as reported by the New York Daily News.

This October, The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, and Milbank LLP filed a class-action lawsuit against the DOC over its continued failure to provide access to medical care in the City jails. A judge ordered the City to comply with the suit’s demands, but the Department has failed to meet that obligation.

“Each day, DOC continues to defy a court order, the law, and basic morality by depriving incarcerated New Yorkers access to medical care in local jails,” reads a statement from Legal Aid and its partners in response to the latest numbers. “This has caused needless suffering and further underscores DOC’s inability to protect the health and safety of people in the Department’s custody. We again call for immediate decarceration.”

The Legal Aid Society will be in court on this matter again on Wednesday for a hearing on their motion to hold the city in contempt.