New York Courts Bolster Limits on Solitary Confinement in State, City Prisons in Separate Rulings

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…

IDOC releases initial solitary confinement report under new law

“Sunlight is the best disinfectant” - first transparency report on solitary confinement in Illinois is just a start, say advocates. Mentally ill inmates in Illinois placed in solitary confinement nearly 500 times monthly, new state report shows. CHICAGO — The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) released its first quarterly report this week on the use of solitary confinement, as required under a new state law aimed at increasing transparenc…

State court orders DOCCS to explain prolonged HALT suspensions, including at Gouverneur

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 — and a state court order…