How New York’s Maximum-Security Women’s Prison Has Failed to HALT Solitary Confinement
A landmark reform law was meant to overhaul carceral punishment in New York. Getting prisons to follow it has been an uphill battle.
This article was supported by a grant from the Ridgeway Reporting Project, managed by Solitary Watch with funding from the Vital Projects Fund.
This article was supported by a grant from the Ridgeway Reporting Project, managed by Solitary Watch with funding from the Vital Projects Fund.
Bedford Hills and DOCCS administration have circumvented both the spirit and the letter of the law.
Nearly two-thirds of the people in SHU are Black, despite Black people making up less than half of the state’s prison population.
“We know that violations are occurring.”