Senator O'Mara's weekly column 'From the Capitol -- for the week of September 29, 2025 -- "Will Albany finally act to make changes to HALT?"
October 3, 2025
Senator O'Mara offers his weekly perspective on many of the key challenges and issues facing the Legislature.
Ever since, New York’s approach to a rising tide of unrest and violence within the state’s prisons has been rife with questionable strategies, shortcomings, and outright failures that led to the breaking point and resulted in correctional officers striking earlier this year.
Senator O'Mara offers his weekly perspective on many of the key challenges and issues facing the Legislature, as well as on legislative actions, local initiatives, state programs and policies, and more. Stop back every Monday for Senator O'Mara's latest column...
This week, "Will Albany finally act to make changes to HALT?"
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