New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS)

Voices from Solitary: I Am Enduring

Voices from Solitary
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The following account was published anonymously in the report Solitary at Southport, which was released last December by the Correctional Association of New York, a nonprofit organization that monitors conditions in the state’s prisons and advocates for a more humane and effective criminal justice system. Southport is one of New York’s two supermax prisons, and […]

Seven Days in Solitary [11/18/18]

Valerie Kiebala
Seven Days in Solitary

• The New York Daily News reported that a state medical review board found that adequate medical treatment could have prevented 50 deaths in the custody of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the past five years. The board’s report found in multiple instances, people with psychiatric disabilities committed suicide […]