The Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act, enacted in April 2021 and effective since March 2022, aims to limit the use of solitary confinement in New York State prisons and ...

On July 16, 2025, President Trump signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (“HALT Fentanyl”) Act into law. The law permanently reclassifies “fentanyl-related substances” into Schedule I of ...

It was fitting that Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-23, visited Jamestown last week to speak about the HALT (Halt All Lethal Trafficking of) Fentanyl Act. In 2017, fentanyl didn’t show up on the Jamestown ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)— Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced proposed recommendations to change aspects of the controversial HALT Act. That’s the bill that was passed in 2021 ...

Over the past week and a half rogue corrections officer walkouts have put prisons across the state into a panic. The officers say they want the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement ...

MORAVIA, N.Y. — MORAVIA, N.Y. — Hundreds of corrections officers are striking in defiance of state law, claiming in part that the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, known as ...

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the HALT (Halt All Lethal Trafficking) Fentanyl Act. The bill aims to make permanent a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) temporary emergency rule ...

WASHINGTON (WCYB) — The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking (HALT) of Fentanyl Act on Thursday. The bill, which Rep. Morgan Griffith is one of the chief sponsors of, ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The Legal Aid Society claims that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ignored a court order on solitary confinement. This followed an ...

The double standard is unmistakable: Some of the very folks charged with guarding (and safeguarding) New York's most serious lawbreakers appear to be breaking the law. The law in question is the ...

State and union leaders have reached a tentative agreement to end a nearly two-week wildcat strike by corrections officers at prisons around the state. But provisions in the agreement related to a law ...