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In response to widespread unsanctioned walkouts by corrections officers, New York state temporarily suspended parts of the HALT Act, which limits the use of extended solitary confinement in prisons and jails. Local criminal justice reform activists argue the law has never been fully enforced.

Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III issued a memo calling for a temporary pause to parts of the HALT Act—or—Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement, due to a prison-wide state of emergency.

Gov. Hochul deployed New York National Guard troops to state prisons as hundreds of corrections officers strike to call attention to staffing and safety issues.

"Why is it state-sentenced inmates are being punished by not getting the same treatment as every other state inmate all because we're housed in county jails?"

“They feel like they’re sort of cut off from the outside world right now which is scary when you’re in a situation like that."

“This is a public health crisis and you have cut them off from the outside world.”

HARRISBURG (WSKG) -- Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections is striking a deal to house inmates from Vermont in its Camp Hill Prison, which has about…