WebMD’s Medscape featured the open letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, written by NYLPI’s Medical Provider’s Network and Doctors for Camp Closure, advocating for the release of people from immigration detention to stop the spread of COVID-19 …

NYLPI’s Health Justice Community Organizer, Mia Soto, spoke with Univision 41 last week to discuss and highlight the national public health crisis in immigration detention centers. As Mia stated, this crisis has become even more urgent during the pande …

NY Daily News published an important op-ed by New York City doctors, and members of NYLPI’s Medical Providers Network, on the life-threatening risks posed to people in immigration detention facilities and local jails during the COVID-19 global health c …

NPR covered NYLPI’s recent “Still Detained and Denied” report and its pending federal litigation in a piece examining an internal investigation by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the death of Carlos Mejia-Bonilla. He was denied lif …

NYLPI, along with over seventy other advocacy organizations demanded that Governor Cuomo release individuals with mental health concerns from New York jails and prisons, and place them in housing in the community with appropriate supports and services. …

New York, NY – April 28, 2020 —New York Lawyers for the Public Interest today released “Still Detained and Denied,” a report documenting serious, often life-threatening deficiencies in the medical care provided to New Yorkers in area immigration detent …