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| NYC jail board moves toward restricting inmate visits |
| By ktar.com |
| Published: 09/09/2015 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City jail oversight board voted Tuesday to move forward on proposed changes to city rules governing, among other things, who can visit inmates and how long particularly violent prisoners can be placed in solitary confinement. In a 5-3 vote, the watchdog Board of Correction initiated the bureaucratic rule-making process for changes that corrections officials have argued are necessary to stop violence but inmate advocates argue will have the opposite effect. The most contentious issue surrounds the roughly 300,000 visitors to city jails every year and a proposal by corrections officials to deny visitors based on certain factors, including whether they’d been convicted of a felony in the past seven years or had no familial or close relationships to an inmate. Read More. |
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