Court temporarily reverses suspension of solitary confinement law in NY prisons

People previously in solitary confinement family members New York State legislators and others rally outside then-Gov Andrew Cuomo's office in Manhattan to sponsorship the HALT Act in In a court order this week Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and District Supervision violated the separation of powers by temporarily suspending a law that sets limitations to the use of solitary confinement more