DOCCS Does Not Have the Authority to Suspend Portions of the HALT Solitary Law – It Can’t Bargain Away a Law Passed by A Supermajority of the State Legislature
(New York) — Today, DOCCS announced, available here, another purported agreement with NYSCOPBA, after officers waged an illegal work stoppage that has killed at least seven people, put tens of thousands of lives at risk, and was orchestrated to distract from increased scrutiny of rampant officer brutality. The latest agreement again doubles down on an illegal purported suspension of the HALT Solitary Confinement Law…