Months after the COVID-19 pandemic ended in-person legal visits at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center and Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, videoconferences with attorneys are still only available to a few inmates each day—a situation the Federal Defenders of New York described as “plainly insufficient” in a letter filed late Wednesday.

Assistant U.S. attorneys Seth Eichenholtz and Sean Greene, who represent the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said in a separate letter Wednesday that the facilities undertook a “herculean effort” to maintain legal access for inmates amid the pandemic.

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