Albany — “You may be familiar with the quote often attributed to Dostoevsky, that you can judge the quality of a society by the conditions of its prisons. And if that’s the case, then we are epically failing, not just in New York State, but across the country. And it should not be a partisan issue how we treat the most vulnerable members of our society, many of whom are behind bars,” NYS Inspector General Lucy Lang says.
Lang says she’s visited all of New York State’s Correctional Facilities, most recently issuing an August 2024 report reviewing the implementation of the HALT Act.
The Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act was signed by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo in April 2021, becoming effective March 31, 2022…