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Federal judge orders NY to give incarcerated men with significant mental health diagnoses more out-of-cell time
“For the men who have been living in such dire conditions, this is the relief that they desperately needed, and have a right to,” said Timothy Clune, executive director of Disability Rights New York, a nonprofit advocacy organization that filed the lawsuit along with Prisoners' Legal Services of New York. “There is no reason why they ever had to endure confinement 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/judge-orders-ny-stop-keeping-mentally-ill-inmates-21051045.php