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Fingerlakes1.com Menu Have a tip for the newsroom, press release, local event listing or digital content to share? Send it here. Support our mission by visiting patreon.com/fl1 and becoming a monthly subscriber. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed the HALT Solitary Confinement Act into law. The bill, which reformed the practice of segregated confinement in state prisons will limit the amount of time an incarcerated person can spend there. Now a limit will be set at 15 days. It also limits the types of...

Keeping inmates in solitary confinement for longer than 15 consecutive days will no longer be allowed in state prisons and jails staring next March. This screenshot shows a March 8 address at the New York Javits Center by Governor Andrew Cuomo. (Image by Courthouse News) ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) — Long-term solitary confinement in New York prisons and jails is on its way out the door after a yearslong push, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. “Generations of incarcerated men and women have b...

PUBLISHED 5:24 AM ET Mar. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED March 17, 2021 @5:24 AM SHARE A bill meant to limit the use of solitary confinement in New Yorks prison and jail facilities was approved Tuesday in the state Assembly and now goes to the state Senate.  The measure won the backing of the Democratic-controlled chamber after an hours-long, emotional debate over the measure to curtail the use of segregated confinement. Supporters of scaling back th...

With more than 10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state prison and parole systems, New York lawmakers are visiting correctional facilities, jails and deten

Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY. Photo: Emily Russell. Dec 22, 2020 — A person incarcerated at the state prison in Dannemora has died due to COVID-19. According to the NYS Dept. of Corrections, the inmate who was symptomatic with COVID-19 was sent to the hospital on Dec. 8 and died on Dec. 20. According to a prison advocacy group, Release Aging People in Prison, this was the second inmate death statewide this week linked to the pandemic. A coalition of advocates released a stat...

Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY. Photo: Emily Russell. Dec 22, 2020 — A person incarcerated at the state prison in Dannemora has died due to COVID-19. According to the NYS Dept. of Corrections, the inmate who was symptomatic with COVID-19 was sent to the hospital on Dec. 8 and died on Dec. 20. According to a prison advocacy group, Release Aging People in Prison, this was the second inmate death statewide this week linked to the pandemic. A coalition of advocates released a stat...

Downstate progressive Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly will fight for decarceration of New York prisons and immigration reform next year, they said Tuesday, citing the party’s new Senate supermajority as the momentum lawmakers need to move their agenda forward. Nearly 20 progressive legislators threw support Tuesday behind a proposed legislation package they dubbed the Justice Roadmap 2021 agenda to protect communities of color and immigrants from unjust imprisonment and deportat...

Downstate progressive Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly will fight for decarceration of New York prisons and immigration reform next year, they said Tuesday, citing the party’s new Senate supermajority as the momentum lawmakers need to move their agenda forward. Nearly 20 progressive legislators threw support Tuesday behind a proposed legislation package they dubbed the Justice Roadmap 2021 agenda to protect communities of color and immigrants from unjust imprisonment and deportat...