Court temporarily reverses suspension of solitary confinement law in NY prisons

People previously in solitary confinement, family members, New York State legislators, and others rally outside then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office in Manhattan to support the HALT Act in 2019.

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision violated “the separation of powers” by temporarily suspending a law that sets limitations to the use of solitary confinement. [ more › ]