Tyrone Turner/WAMU toggle caption Tyrone Turner/WAMU After more than a year under a strict, 23-hour daily lockdown, roughly 1,500 men and women at the D.C. Jail will be granted two hours outside of their cells — a slight increase over the one hour they've been allotted since the pandemic began. The schedule change went into effect April 30, per a notice issued Monday by the D.C. Department of Corrections. The lockdown, put in place last year to curb viral spread, has been called an abuse of human rights by health experts and advocates for incarcerated residents. Last week's adjustment marks the first time in more than 400 days that residents at the jail were permitted outside of their cells for more than hour each day, and only in April were inmates allowed outdoors during the one-hour break from confinement.