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 disciplinary infractions that are eligible for solitary confinement and exempts certain vulnerable populations from it.