The Legal Aid Society is decrying plans by the incoming Adams Administration to reinstate banned solitary confinement practices in New York City jails starting next month, as reported by the New York Daily News.

“This proposal throws away years of progress undoing the physical and mental harms caused by solitary confinement, and it reveals the new Administration’s intent to reinstate regressive and violent policies over modern and more effective practices,” reads a statement from Legal Aid.

“Mayor-elect Eric Adams has pledged an ‘emotionally intelligent’ response to complex issues of law enforcement but reinstating solitary confinement, a practice that the United Nations has decried as torture and the Mandela Rules limit, is the exact opposite,” the statement continues. “This is a direct attack on the rule of law, as the recently-enacted Board of Correction rules clearly do not give the Administration this latitude.”

The Legal Aid Society is calling on the mayor-elect to retract his plan immediately.