TERRE HAUTE, Ind.  — A federal judge has ruled conditions are unconstitutional at the overcrowded Vigo County Jail an in court Tuesday U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson told Vigo County that it needed to provide a timetable for progress on construction of a new jail by Oct. 15. She also ordered the county to report on increasing staffing at the current jail.

Magnus-Stinson said  that “increased staffing would further the goal of increasing the amount of recreation inmates could engage in and would improve the staff’s ability to perform medical and safety checks.”

The judge granted partial summary judgment to inmates who filed a 2016 lawsuit claiming the conditions were unconstitutional.

The current jail’s capacity is 268 but the population is currently running around 300.