U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie of the Eastern District of New York on Friday urged prosecutors representing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow more access to legal calls inside Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center and Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.

The Federal Defenders of New York, who have warned for weeks that the need for legal calls will increase as court proceedings become more substantive despite the pandemic, reported that MDC inmates were not able to participate in calls in the evening this week, leading to a backlog among pretrial inmates.

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