'It Was Terrifying': How Incarceration Affects Mental Health

'It was terrifying': How incarceration affects mental health

NEW YORK (PIX11) — We explore the undeniable and devastating impact of incarceration on mental health through a young man’s self-described descent into madness. A decade later, Victor Abraham says he is still paying for his wrongful arrest and jailing on Riker’s Island. The NYC Dept. of Health and Hospitals responded to our report with the following statement: “We know that incarceration can adversely affect a person’s mental health, which is wh…

NY prisons must comply with law limiting solitary confinement, judge says

NEW YORK — A state judge in Albany granted a temporary injunction forcing New York State to fully implement a law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons after elements of the law were suspended following the 22-day prison guards…

New York courts bolster limits on solitary confinement in state, city ...

New York courts bolster limits on solitary confinement in state, city prisons in separate rulings

New York state and city courts rule against solitary confinement, lifting restrictions and enforcing alternative measures in correctional facilities.

Court Temporarily Reverses Prison Agency's Suspension of Solitary…

A state court will temporarily overturn a New York prison agency policy that indefinitely suspended a solitary confinement reform law across its facilities. The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision “wholly failed to demonstrate” that keeping the policy in place “has a basis in rational fact,” the judge wrote. DOCCS stopped following parts of the law, which placed strict restrictions on prisons’ and jails’ use of isolation, after t…

State court orders DOCCS to explain prolonged HALT suspensions

ALBANY — A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and rehabilitative programming, hasn’t been enforced equally at every facility for months.