“The NAACP New York State Conference is profoundly disturbed with the New York State Department of Correction and Community Supervision (DOCCS) recent decision to abandon the legally mandated implementation of unspecified provisions of the HALT Solitary Confinement law...
“Prolonged solitary confinement is torture and, contrary to the narrative of the moment, it makes everyone in prisons and jails less safe. This law was passed to end the routine inhumane abuses of solitary confinement by DOCCS…