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

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

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.

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

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

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision violated “the separation of powers” by temporarily suspending a law that sets ...

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