To the dismay of both inmate advocates and a correction-officers union, the city’s jail oversight board has introduced new directives that, if ratified, would change how and to what degree inmates are separated from the general population following violent incidents.
While the Board of Correction and Mayor de Blasio have said the proposed directives amount to the elimination of solitary confinement in the city’s jails, their airing at the BOC’s March 8 hearing suggested that consensus on even what constitutes punitive segregation, as the practice of isolating inmates is also known, will likely remain out of reach.
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