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

A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and ...

A New York State Supreme Court judge in Albany County has ordered the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

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 ...

A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

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

A New York judge reinstated restrictions on solitary confinement, challenging the state's correction department's extended ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.

The DOCCS statement goes on to say when considering what prison(s) to close the state will seek to minimize the impact to staff, consider potential re-use options for a facility, ...