Two New York federal judges have ordered ICE to immediately release 14 at-risk detainees from correctional facilities in New Jersey and New York, citing the facilities’ inability to protect vulnerable inmates from the spread of COVID-19, according to the New Jersey Law Journal.

Reports of poor sanitation, scarce resources and the use of solitary confinement have cast doubt on ICE’s capacity to prevent further infection among detainees.

Judge Nathan’s order “makes it clear that ICE cannot continue to recklessly endanger the lives of our clients or fail to take any steps to protect medically vulnerable individuals in its care and custody,” said Aadhithi Padmanabhan, Staff Attorney in the Immigration Law Unit at The Legal Aid Society.