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The New York City Department of Correction may no longer call how it isolates people “solitary confinement” on paper, but that is precisely what is done in practice. I say this as someone who, decades ago, spent over three years on Rikers Island, and 13 years in state prisons.
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Andre Ward, Associate Vice President of the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, testified at City Hall for the purpose of passing Int. 0549-2022, banning solitary confinement in city jails.
READ MORE“Fear aside, will our city recognize health care as a human right? If these sick people can’t be placed in a hospital campus, then where else can they go?”
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(September 15, 2022) The Fortune Society issued the following statement today after the most recent death of a person in the care of the New York City Department of Correction.
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