Individuals awaiting arraignment at Brooklyn Central Booking sufficiently pleaded that they endured overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, violence and other inhumane conditions, according to a judge who let the case proceed.
Eastern District Judge William Kuntz II acknowledged a more developed record could ultimately show the 18 plaintiffs suffered no civil rights violations but, for the time being, they had “plausibly allege[d] objectively serious conditions … that, if true, deprived plaintiffs of ‘the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities.’”
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