That includes part of the law that would have effectively banned solitary confinement or “punitive segregation” for inmates accused of breaking prison rules. It would have placed limits on the ...

Solitary confinement, also known as punitive segregation, refers to the practice of holding a detainee alone in a cell for most of the day. The law passed last year bans it beyond a four-hour ...

If enacted, Local Law 42, which was passed by the council last December, would have banned punitive segregation in jails — including at the troubled Rikers Island Correctional Facility ...

She served as Assistant Chief of Mental Health in the island’s 500-cell Punitive Segregation Unit. Since leaving Rikers, she has been an outspoken advocate for the incarcerated, especially the ...