Congratulations and deep gratitude to everyone for all of the incredible work for so many years to make this happen. The City Council voted to override the Mayor’s veto of Int 549A, making it the law of New York City and forever banning solitary confinement, in all forms, by all names.
A large veto-proof supermajority of the City Council passed Int 549A on December 20, 2023, by a vote of 39-7 and then an even larger number of Council Members voted to override the Mayor’s veto, 42-9 in January. 2024, thereby enacting Local Law 42.
Coverage of the Council’s vote to ban solitary was in nearly every major news outlet in NY and across the country: The Hill, NPR, New York Magazine, NYT here and here, NBC, PBS, Gothamist, Reuters, AP, Daily News, Black Enterprise, El Diario, City Council, NY1, AMNY, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Queens Daily Eagle, Truthout, ABC, ABC, CBS, News12, Pix11, Independent, and many more.
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