Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.
Inmates at New York state’s Woodbourne Correctional Facility will get to view Monday’s solar eclipse after all, lawyers for the inmates who sued over the matter said Thursday. Six inmates at the medium-security men’s prison in Woodbourne in upstate New York sued the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision over not being allowed to view the eclipse.
The department’s acting commissioner, Daniel Martuscello III, had issued a memo on March 11 to all facilities stating that they would operate on a holiday schedule on the day of the eclipse — meaning there would be no movement from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m and inmates would remain in their cells, the lawsuit says. The corrections department said it had begun a review of religious requests to view the eclipse, including from the six inmates at Woodbourne, in advance of the lawsuit being filed.
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