JACOB KAYE / QUEENS DAILY EAGLE
As the illegal strike by New York State prison guards entered its ninth day on Tuesday, Governor Kathy Hochul said enough was enough. The officers who had illegally walked off of their jobs in New York’s prisons over a week ago had yet to negotiate their return in good faith and were putting “the entire state at risk” by going AWOL, Hochul said.
The wildcat strike that began several days before nearly a dozen officers were charged with murdering Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in December has thrown the state’s prison system into crisis. Incarcerated people at a number of facilities throughout the state have had limited to no access to programming, family visits and other services. At least one man, 51-year-old Jonathan Grant, has died during the strike….