The Legal Aid Society issued a letter today to the New York City Board of Correction ahead of its monthly meeting on the City’s plans to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19 at local jails, reports the New York Daily News. The letter seeks clarity from the NYC Department of Correction and Correctional Health Services on a range of issues.

“People confined in jails and prisons during outbreaks of infectious disease are particularly vulnerable not only because of the physical environment, including poor ventilation and close proximity, but also because of the profound constraints on self-help imposed by incarceration,” the letter reads in part. “Unlike people in a free society, incarcerated people have no access to water or soap for handwashing, or capacity to seek physical distance, except with the overt assistance of their jailers.”