February 21, 2025
FROM THE NYS CORRECTIONS COMMISSIONER: • The provisions of the HALT legislation permit temporary suspension of specific elements of HALT under “exceptional circumstances” where these circumstances “create a significant and unreasonable risk to the safety and security of other incarcerated persons, staff or the facility.”
Accordingly, we are suspending the elements of HALT that cannot safely be operationalized under a prison wide state of emergency until we can safely operate the prisons.
