Prison staff in New York will be required to comply with a controversial law following an order from an Albany Supreme Court ...

A Supreme Court judge in Albany has temporarily restored the HALT Act, the policy that limits solitary confinement which ...

An appellate judge has ordered the reinstatement of the HALT Act in prisons. When one of Madeline Dunn's 18-month-old twins ...

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 ...

The HALT Act—formally known as the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act—took effect in 2022. It limits the time spent in segregated confinement and requires ...

Congressman Schmidt of Kansas celebrated the recent passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act, a significant legislative step aimed at ...