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Michael M. Santiago/Getty By Bry'onna Mention· Updated September 29, 2022
Correction officers and jail reform supporters clashed on Wednesday over a City Council bill to end solitary confinement in New York City city jails.
While correction officers argue that solitary confinement is necessary to discipline inmates who become violent, protestors chanted “End solitary now!”
At the rally, officers showed protestester pictures of brutal assaults by inmates arguing that the punishment
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