Attorneys representing people held in harsh conditions at New York City jails on Wednesday announced they have reached a settlement with the city valued at up to $53 million, with individual class members receiving an average of more than $9,000.

The class members’ attorneys, including lawyers at Cuti Hecker Wang and Alex Reinert, a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, had argued that the class members, all pretrial detainees, faced conditions that at times “approached those experienced in solitary confinement.”

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