In a Facebook post published on Thursday afternoon, Baltimore public defender Marci Tarrant Johnson wrote of the horrendous conditions of Central Booking — where those who have been arrested are temporarily locked up. Johnson was on a team of lawyers assigned to interview civilians who may have been illegally detained. When she arrived, she saw hundreds of people crowded into small concrete cells, many who had been held for days even though they hadn’t been charged with any crime.

“There wasn’t even enough room for them all to lay down at the same time”