The Legal Aid Society and prisoner’s rights advocates throughout the city criticized a new proposal by the de Blasio administration that purports to eradicate solitary confinement at local jails.

The Board of Corrections has proposed “replacing” solitary confinement with a three-level model called a Risk Management Accountability System starting on November 1, 2021, as reported by US News & World Report.

The Legal Aid Society, New York City’s primary public defender organization, was mostly critical of the new proposal, calling it a “re-branding” that “replicates some of the most inhumane features of the current system,” including chaining inmates to desks all day.