“Arraignments have become a place where people now die in cuffs and give birth in cuffs,” said one legal advocate.

On Monday, legal service workers protested in front of the Brooklyn Criminal Court and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office after a woman who was being detained was forced to give birth in a courtroom on Friday. At least 150 legal advocates, public defenders, and local lawmakers rallied against what the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys (ALAA) called “the dangerous conditions in…

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