N.Y. Prisons Loosen Solitary Confinement Rules as Wildcat Strikes Spread
Corrections officers in New York say their working conditions are dangerous and they are forced into overtime. They have ...
How Gov. Hochul is bungling New York’s prison crisis
Gov. Kathy Hochul won’t address striking corrections officers’ key gripe: the state’s 2021 HALT Act, which restricts ...
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Advocacy groups say state prison agency can’t halt law limiting solitary confinement
The commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision released a memo last week announcing that ...
Solitary confinement in prisons misrepresented, officer says
Cinematic portrayals of inmates being thrown in a dingy, small, unlit cell with no running water and only a slit in the door for occasional food for years on end, is not the reality in New York state ...
A mass hunger strike transformed solitary confinement in California prisons. This documentary captures the fight
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...
High Court refuses relief to blast convict alleging solitary confinement
Bombay High Court denies relief to Himayat Baig, convicted in 2010 Pune blast, alleging solitary confinement affecting mental ...
State Police begin serving court orders on striking correction officers
State troopers began serving judicial orders on striking correction officers over the weekend that threatened they could be ...
German Bakery blast convict alleges solitary confinement; Bombay HC denies relief, says 'no concern of any trauma'
MUMBAY: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday denied relief to Himayat Baig, convicted in the 2010 Pune German bakery blast case, ...
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Prison system changes solitary confinement; Staff won’t be disciplined if they return to work
Regulations that restrict use of solitary confinement are being temporarily suspended in the wake of prison strikes and ...
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What is the HALT Act? A closer look as striking corrections officers call for its reversal
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In 2021, former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Human Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement ...