A Bronx County judge agreed Thursday to release 28 people jailed in New York City after a planned transfer to state drug treatment programs became unavailable due to the coronavirus pandemic, giving New York’s Legal Aid Society another victory in its ongoing attempts to reduce the population of city jails for health and safety reasons.

All 28 people had been found responsible for parole violations, but they had all been ordered to attend a state-run drug treatment program that would last, at the most, 90 days, according to the petition filed April 2 by Elon Harpaz, staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Parole Revocation Defense Unit.

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