Four days after we and our co-counsel, the ACLU, NYCLU and Make the Road New York, filed a lawsuit challenging inhumane and unconstitutional conditions at ICE’s 26 Federal Plaza detention facility, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, ordered the government to immediately provide confidential attorney access to detained individuals, severely limit the permitted population of the rooms at the facility, provide basic necessities such as sleeping mats and hygiene products, and to otherwise remedy unsanitary conditions at 26 Fed.
