By TANDY LAU / NY AMSTERDAM NEWS
The Justice Policy Institute’s (JPI) newest report titled “A Moment of Reckoning,” which delineates a criminal justice reform gameplan toward ending the state’s ongoing prison crisis and was released on March 13, is gaining support.
A wildcat strike among corrections officers across New York and the killing of Robert Brooks at the hands of prison staff thrust the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) into national headlines. Preliminary reporting and statements by Gov. Kathy Hochul on the death of Harlemite Messiah Nantwi indicates a similar upcoming fallout to Brooks’ killing, which led to the arrest and murder charges for at least a half dozen prison guards…