Legal Aid and Brooklyn Defender Services want the city to pay $250 for 12,354 missed medical appointments which occurred because Department of Correction staff did not escort them to their doctor visits or there was no space in the jail clinics, according to a motion filed late Monday in Bronx Supreme Court.
Bronx Supreme Court Judge Elizabeth Taylor had ordered the city to fix the problem in December but the number of missed medical appointments in the jails in March shot up to 12,745, the highest number since last July.