NYS – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday that the city would stop using solitary confinement on inmates under 21 at local jails. In an op-ed in the Gotham Gazette, New York City correction commissioner Joseph Ponte described the move as “an unprecedented milestone in New York State correctional history” and “across the nation,” claiming that “no other city or state has accomplished comparable punitive-segregation reforms.” Read More Here