BOC Rulemaking on Restrictive Housing
Help us end torture by isolation in NYC jails
What is the NYC Board of Correction (BOC) proposing?
- Read the Board's proposed rule on restrictive housing here
How you can help:
- Attend and invite others to the NYC BOC Public Hearings:
- Hearing 1: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 @ 9AM
- Hearing 2: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 @ 6PM
- Information on how to testify virtually or by phone here
- Submit comments to NYC Board of Correction by close of business on Friday, April 16, 2021:
- Website: NYC rules website
- Email: BOC@boc.nyc.gov.
- Mail: Attn: Margaret Egan 1 Centre Street, Room 2213, New York, NY 10007.
- Fax: 212-669-7980
Advocacy Materials
- Key Flaws and Recommendations created by JAC and HALTsolitary Campaign members
- Memo on HALT Impact on NYC's Efforts to End Solitary
- Blueprint to end solitary confinement in NYC Jails created by JAC and HALTsolitary Campaign members
- November 7, 2019: Letter to BOC re Restrictive Housing Rulemaking
- October 29, 2019: Petition for Rulemaking to End Solitary Confinement in NYC jails
- October 28, 2019: Press Release
- July, 8, 2019: Letter to BOC
- January 6, 2017: Letter to BOC
- February 18, 2016: Letter to BOC
Pictures of Proposed Solitary Confinement Units in NYC
April 14, 2021:
Obtained through a FOIL request, these are photographs of the NIC structurally restrictive housing units that the Board of Correction's proposed rules are based on. Under the Board's proposed rules, these cages are where people will be locked alone for so-called "out-of-cell" time. Clearly, being alone in this cage will not afford people any meaningful out-of-cell time, meaningful programming, or meaningful human engagement. Under the proposed rules, people will thus be held alone in a cage 24 hours a day, and can be held in these units indefinitely.
This is solitary confinement by another name.
Obtained through a FOIL request, these are photographs of the NIC structurally restrictive housing units that the Board of Correction's proposed rules are based on. Under the Board's proposed rules, these cages are where people will be locked alone for so-called "out-of-cell" time. Clearly, being alone in this cage will not afford people any meaningful out-of-cell time, meaningful programming, or meaningful human engagement. Under the proposed rules, people will thus be held alone in a cage 24 hours a day, and can be held in these units indefinitely.
This is solitary confinement by another name.