New Law Boosts Oversight of Use of Solitary Confinement at Rikers by MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ

By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ

The law will require the Correction Department to publish quarterly reports on the inmates in solitary confinement, but did not include provisions that would scale back the use of isolation as punishment.

Published: August 29, 2014 at 4:00AM

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