Civil rights attorneys criticized the state’s new regulations on the use of solitary confinement for incarcerated individuals in a new report published Monday, which highlighted the prevalence of the practice in previous years using data that’s never been made public.

The New York Civil Liberties Union, in the report, identified 40,000 solitary confinement sanctions in New York last year and said new regulations won’t do enough to change that.

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