The City Council was wrong to write a law purporting to ban solitary confinement on Rikers Island, as it would significantly ...

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

A judge granted a preliminary injunction against state prisons employing solitary confinement despite banning it last Wednesday, July 2.

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

Mayor Eric Adams illegally declared a state of emergency in the city’s jails in an effort to skirt around implementing a law ...

Mayor Eric Adams didn’t follow the proper procedures when he declared a state of emergency and blocked a local law restricting the use of solitary confinement on Rikers Island, a New York state judge ...

A New York judge temporarily blocked New York’s corrections department from rolling back a law limiting the use of solitary ...

Nova Scotia resident Lisa Adams was kept for 16 days in a solitary room with no running water or flushing toilet under ...