As it approaches its 40th anniversary, the D.C. Jail is showing its age. Crumbling infrastructure, active vermin infestations, a leaking roof, moldy walls, and broken plumbing are among the problems plaguing the city’s prison population, according to a new report.

Put out by the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and Covington & Burling, “D.C. Prisoners: Conditions of Confinement in the District of Columbia” details a litany of issues with the facility. Conditions are so bad, they say, that many of them “cannot realistically be fixed” in the current facility. Their first recommendation is to close the D.C. Jail and the Correctional Treatment Facility and “construct a new, safer, more effective facility.”

The Department of Correction’s response, which was included with the report, noted that many of the issues that were highlighted have already been fixed. “In the most recent March 2015 DOH inspection, 87 percent of the identified items have already been abated to date,” they wrote. “The remaining items are either currently being corrected or, due to the age and deterioration of the physical structure, are outside of DOC’s control.”

The report also details issues with suicide prevention efforts and how youth are treated at the facilities.

There was a rash of suicides in 2012 and 2013 that prompted the DOC to commission a study by an outside consultant, make changes, and create a suicide prevention task force. While the report noted improvements, the authors said that “much work should still be done” and recommended an outside evaluation to see if the recommended changes had been fully addressed.

Issues confronting youth that are housed at the CTF include inadequate space and a lack of dedicated programming, the authors of the report say. They also found that youth are excessively subjected to solitary confinement and generally are only allowed video visitation rather than in-person visits.

The report also recommends that the city stop contracting management of the CTF out to the for-profit Corrections Corporation of America when their contract expires in 2017. Among the downsides, they cite both safety and quality issues, as well as the fact that CCA isn’t subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws.