(New York) — Today, DOCCS announced that it had reached a purported agreement with NYSCOPBA, available here. In response, Jerome Wright, Co-Director of the #HALTsolitary Campaign, released the following statement:
“Today’s illegal agreement aims to maintain a racist regime of torture, brutality, and death. DOCCS does not have the authority to suspend the HALT Solitary Confinement Law. Let’s be clear that they are simply violating the law and people will be tortured and die as a result…