Overview
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani renewed the jails’ emergency order for five days and directed the Department of Correction to submit a compliance roadmap by Feb. 19 in consultation with the Law Department.
- The plan must restore adherence to suspended laws and Board of Correction Minimum Standards and outline how to implement Local Law 42’s limits on solitary confinement.
- City Hall instructed its lawyers to work with the federal monitor and parties in the Nunez case on the solitary limits, with the DOC still under court supervision and no remediation manager yet appointed.
- The department remains under interim leadership, as Mamdani has not named a permanent corrections commissioner and Lynelle Maginley-Liddie continues to lead the agency.
- Correction officers’ unions oppose restricting solitary and officials cite resource shortfalls, and a federal judge previously blocked Local Law 42 from taking effect over safety concerns.