The bill would limit confinement to no more than 15 consecutive days and prohibit placing anyone in solitary who is pregnant or has a physical or mental disability
"If I punch any one of you in your face and break your orbital, you're not coming to work the next day. That's our reality every single day," a CO official said
"AB 2632 establishes standards that are overly broad and exclusions that could risk the safety of both the staff and incarcerated population within these facilities," he said
"Violence is through the roof. The percentage of violence since the HALT Act is going to exceed last year's record numbers of assaults on staff, and inmate on inmate assaults," said union head
Gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin is demanding Gov. Kathy Hochul release data on assaults on COs since a solitary confinement reform law took effect on April 1