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A judge granted a preliminary injunction against state prisons employing solitary confinement despite banning it last Wednesday, July 2.
A New York State prison guard is suing the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, claiming she ...
Flames basketball, a primarily Brooklyn-based youth basketball nonprofit, paid a visit to Queensboro Correctional Facility in ...
Angela Wells claims racism and retaliation at work. With a hearing set for 2026, she seeks justice after facing threats and ...
During the strikes, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) asked Governor ...
A New York judge reinstated restrictions on solitary confinement, challenging the state's correction department's extended ...
A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and ...
Corrections and Community Supervision, or DOCCS, said that an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility had to be hospitalized ...
A Supreme Court judge in Albany has temporarily restored the HALT Act, the policy that limits solitary confinement which ...
At least a third of New York counties told the Legal Action Center that they currently provide some form of Medicaid ...
A.8871 isn’t a cure-all. But it is a foundation and a commitment to dignity, accountability, and infrastructure that outlasts political tides. It tells New Yorkers: our corrections system must uphold ...
A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...