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But former police captain Mayor Eric Adams says the legislation, if implemented, would ‘unquestionably make our city less safe’.
‘He was in two weeks, let out for five or six days, and then today will be nine more weeks,’ Dr. Simone Gold said. ‘It’s unbelievable. Absolute torture.’
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that he has signed into law legislation that will limit how long an inmate can be held in solitary confinement.
As states rethink the use of solitary confinement to punish unruly inmates, a prisons oversight group is reshaping national accreditation standards to ease such procedures.
The BCCLA and the John Howard Society have filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General of Canada regarding the use of solitary confinement in prisons.
The newly appointed commissioner of New York City’s jail system violated city law by sending as many as 47 mentally ill inmates into 23-hour confinement without first getting approval from mental health clinicians, a city oversight board said Tuesday.
