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Eliminating 'Solitary' On Council Panel's Agenda

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 12/2/20

The city’s piecemeal efforts to end solitary confinement within its jails got added impetus last week with the introduction of City Council legislation that would ban the practice altogether.

Punitive segregation, as the method of isolating inmates is also known, is already prohibited for persons under 22 and for those with serious mental illnesses and medical conditions. But following resistance from the de Blasio administration, efforts by the Board of Correction, the city’s jail-oversight panel, to curtail if not entirely end solitary tailed off last year. 

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