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Advocates Warn NYC’s Homeless Shelters are a “Time Bomb” Amid COVID-19

Public advocates fear the worst as the deadly virus invades one place where social distancing is impossible, reports The New York Times.

LAS Demands Release of Incarcerated New Yorkers After Death of Second Client

Walter Ance, who was 63 years old, passed away Saturday from COVID-19 while in custody of the New York City Department of Correction, according to THE CITY.

LAS Secures the Release of 51 Clients Held on Technical Parole Violations

The ruling comes just days after the deaths of Michael Tyson and Raymond Rivera, two New Yorkers who contracted COVID-19 while in the custody of the DOCCS, according to the CNN.

LAS Decries New York’s Floundering Unemployement Insurance System

Crucial unemployment benefits for the jobless are being bottlenecked by a convoluted review process, writes Gothamist.

LAS Calls for Automatic CARES Act Benefits for SSI and Veterans

The #CARESAct requires millions of vulnerable recipients of SSI and Veterans benefits to complete complex and confusing online forms, unnecessarily impeding their receipt of desperately needed relief.

New York City Jail Population Drops 20% During COVID-19 Epidemic

The Legal Aid Society's nationally recognized mass writ litigation caused the City and State to release over 1,000 people.

Watch: LAS Attorney Mathew Finston Featured in NYT Video on COVID-19 and City Jails

Finston, a staff attorney in The Legal Aid Society's Parole Revocation Defense Unit speaks to the dire situation faced by incarcerated New Yorkers.

LAS Demands Release of Incarcerated New Yorkers as COVID-19 Exposure Rate Soars

A new report issued by the NYC Board of Correction reveals that 60% of the city's detainees have been exposed to COVID-19, according to the New York Daily News.

LAS Secures Release of 28 Clients Denied Transfer to Drug Treatment Program

Although their parole cases had already been adjudicated, these individuals were stuck on Rikers Island because all transfers to state custody have been suspended due to the COVID-19 epidemic, reports The Appeal.

LAS Joins the Fight to Protect Uber Driver Benefits

A proposed "legal category" of employees would allow Uber to treat it's workers as contractors while affording them only partial employee benefits, reports the Los Angeles Times.