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

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state 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 New York judge reinstated restrictions on solitary confinement, challenging the state's correction department's extended ...

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

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

A spokesperson for DOCCS confirmed that the agency had released the program bill last year and stood by its recommendations to expand eligibility for merit time programs. “Governor Hochul has been ...