With Officers’ Illegal Work Stoppage Endangering Tens of Thousands of Lives, Signatories Also Call for End to System-Wide Lockdowns and Brutality, Restoration of Visits and Basic Care, and Passage of Legislation Providing Meaningful Mechanisms for Release & Transformation of the Prison Environment
(New York) — Today, 90 civil rights and human rights organizations, racial justice organizations, faith groups, and health and mental health organizations sent this letter to Governor Hochul and Commissioner Martuscello. The letter calls on DOCCS to immediately rescind its illegal purported suspension of the HALT Solitary Confinement Law, a law enacted by a supermajority of both houses of the New York State legislature and signed by the Governor…