The Legal Aid Society slammed a scathing federal report finding that New York city’s jails are suffering from a “pervasive level of disorder and chaos” generated by widespread incompetence and mismanagement at NYC’s Department of Correction – leading to alarming levels of uses of force amidst brutal and hyper-confrontational behavior by staff, according to THE CITY.

The court-ordered Nunez Report – a result of the city’s settlement of a 2015 class-action lawsuit overuse of force in city jails – landed mere hours after DOC Commissioner Cynthia Brann announced she will be resigning at the end of the month.

“The monitoring team remains very concerned about the overall state of reform within the department,” the 342-page report said before blaming top jail officials for failing to implement badly needed changes at the Department. In fact, the report revealed that many key statistics chronicling life behind bars are actually getting worse.

THE CITY further noted that the Legal Aid Society “said the report shows Correction Department leaders have been unable or unwilling to take the actions necessary to dismantle the culture of brutality and incompetence in the jails.”