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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

Mayor Eric Adams didn’t follow the proper procedures when he declared a state of emergency and blocked a local law ...

At about 7 p.m. at Columbia Correctional Institution on June 9, 2021, Paul Ammerman lost consciousness in his prison cell, ...

Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in city jails, a judge ruled Monday.