New York’s Prison Chief Ordered Guards to Illegally Shackle People to Desks
Anthony Annucci’s internal memo tells staff to restrain incarcerated people during any out-of-cell time, affecting at least 5,000.

- State Prisons Are Routinely Violating New York’s Landmark Solitary Confinement Law
- Prisons Are Illegally Throwing People With Disabilities Into Solitary Confinement
- Solitary by Another Name: How State Prisons Are Using ‘Therapeutic’ Units to Evade Reforms
- Lesser Infractions Aren’t Supposed to Land You in Solitary Confinement. They Do Anyway.
- To Implement a New Law, Prisons Likely Broke Another
- Can Anyone Make New York Prisons Follow Solitary Confinement Law?
- Prison Department Writes Its Way Out of Following Solitary Confinement Law — Again
- A Law Hasn't Fixed Solitary Confinement in New York. Can a Lawsuit?


Update: November 8, 2022 — This story has been updated to include additional comments from DOCCS sent after publication.

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