New Report by NY State Senator Julia Salazar Finds New York Prisons Fraught with Endemic Violence and Disregard for the Law
Albany, NY – Today, State Senator Julia Salazar, Chair of the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction, released a first-of-its-kind report on last spring’s landmark Joint Public Hearing on the ongoing crisis in New York State prisons, which featured testimony from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, their loved ones, legal experts, advocates, and State officials. The report found that the State’s prisons regularly abuse and neglect incarcerated individuals, fail to hold correctional officers accountable for wrongdoing or even investigate misconduct, openly violate the law, and more...