Judges to Visit Detention Facilities: New York Brief (Correct)

In this issue: New York judges will soon be visiting jails and Wall Street may stop sleeping.

NY Rule Will Send Judges to Jails, Prisons

Clinton Correctional Facility on June 18, 2015, in Dannemora, New York

Photographer: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

New York judges will start making annual visits to detention facilities under a court rule rolled out this week, a change defense attorneys hope will soften sentences, Beth Wang reports.

The rule—applying to New York state criminal and family court judges—updates a decades-old version that required judges to make such visits once every four years. The new order makes New York the first state in the nation to mandate yearly visits to a ...