Tag: Woodbourne Correctional Facility

Prisoners Who Sued Over Lockdown Will Be Allowed to View Solar Eclipse

New York State’s corrections department agreed on Thursday to allow six men who had sued to be able to view Monday’s total solar eclipse to do so at the upstate prison where they are held, but the department stopped short of lifting a statewide prison lockdown during the eclipse. The men, inmates at Woodbourne Correctional […]

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New York Prisoners, Denied a Solar Eclipse Viewing, Sue the State

When the moon crosses in front of the sun on Monday afternoon and, for a few minutes, casts a shadow over much of New York State, millions of people will be able to witness the rare celestial event just by looking up. Inmates in the state’s prisons will not. Last month, the state’s Department of […]

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