More than 1,000 people are currently jailed in New York City on alleged parole violations, according to the suit, which was filed in the Southern District of New York and names Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York State board of parole chairwoman Tina Stanford as defendants.

On April 5, a New York City jail inmate who had tested positive for COVID-19 died at Bellevue Hospital, according to city corrections spokesman Peter Thorne. The Department of Corrections declined to release the inmate’s name, but the Legal Aid Society identified him as 53-year-old Michael Tyson, a Legal Aid client jailed on a parole violation.