The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the local jails continues to climb. BOC confirmed 38 COVID-19 cases among the jail population and staff. Another 58 individuals are currently being monitored for symptoms in the contagious and quarantine units, according to the New York Post.

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As the Coronavirus outbreak has brought New York City to a standstill, workers transporting people and food have shouldered the burden of delivering essential services to homebound residents - even as they themselves face increased risk of exposure to the deadly virus, reports POLITICO.

Elected officials and tenants' rights advocates are demanding a freeze for residents hit hard by the destabilizing effects of the Coronavirus outbreak, which has crippled the economic life of America's largest city, according to Curbed NY.

These individuals, by virtue of their age and/or underlying medical condition, are particularly vulnerable to serious illness or death if infected by COVID-19, according to the New York Daily News.

An entire unit of incarcerated immigrants have organized a hunger strike at the Essex County Correctional Facility in protest of lack of basic sanitation measures, according to NJ.com.

In a video published by The Intercept, the officers appear to plant marijuana in a car to justify an otherwise entirely unlawful stop-and-search.

Earlier this week, the New York State Office of Court Administration suspended all eviction proceedings statewide but this moratorium did not include cases that were recently disposed of and transmitted to a marshal to execute, according to the Queens Daily Eagle.

The Legal Aid Society called on the New York State Department of Correction and Community Supervision today to immediately suspend all parole hearings pending the installation of video conferencing technology - DOCCS currently only has one open video room, according to THE CITY.

Clients in several facilities in the borough jails and on Rikers Island reported that they do not have access to soap (or hand sanitizer, which is treated as contraband) in their housing units, according to The Appeal.