The Legal Aid Society, in a recently issued letter, called on the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) to implement measures to protect incarcerated New Yorkers from this summer’s high heat days, according to NY1. DOC recently published a 2020 Summer Heat Plan that is substantially the same plan that failed last summer, subjecting incarcerated New Yorkers to extreme and potentially deadly temperatures.

“Suffocating is the word that keeps coming to mind. We are extremely concerned about those people,” said Robert Quackenbush, Staff Attorney with the Prisoners’ Rights Project at The Legal Aid Society.