After finding the New York City Department of Correction in contempt in May for not fully providing inmate-requested medical visits, a Bronx Supreme Court judge has now fined the agency $100 for each medical appointment requested by inmates that wasn’t kept during an approximately seven-week period.

The fines total about $200,000, according to the lawyers representing a class of all inmates in the city penal system who haven’t, or who will not be, given proper medical-care access. And it appears more fines could come unless the DOC shows better compliance with the Dec. 3, 2021, order handed down by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Taylor.

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