Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has called for an end to solitary confinement in the city’s jails even as the head of the largest correction union criticized him and other advocates for pushing an agenda “that affects the safety and security of officers, civilians and inmates.”
Testifying before the Board of Correction, which held the first of two hearings on a proposed rule that would curtail to 15 days from 30 the maximum amount of time an inmate could be held in punitive segregation, Mr. Williams said it was a “moral imperative” to end the practice altogether.
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