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As its latest defense in an ongoing court battle, New York’s state prison agency is arguing that the core of a landmark solitary confinement reform law does not apply to the vast majority of the people it incarcerates. Advocates, attorneys, and the legislation’s lead sponsor say the agency is mischaracterizing the law and obscuring what incarcerated people describe as dire conditions in the prison system.

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