The deal also suspends element of the state HALT Act that restricts use of solitary confinement as punishment.

New contract offer would create a committee to determine whether certain provisions of a law that regulates solitary confinement could be changed.

New York corrections officials implored striking prison guards on Thursday to take a last-chance deal to return to work without repercussions, over the objections of their union leaders. Daniel Martuscello,

At least seven prisoners in New York have died in just over two weeks since correctional officers triggered the prison system's largest work stoppage in four decades. Officers at two upstate prisons first walked off the job on Feb.