(New York) – Today, on the day that prosecutors unsealed indictments against the guards who brutally murdered Robert Brooks, New York State Department of Correction and Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III issued a memo in response to prison guards’ illegal work stoppage purporting to indefinitely suspend unspecified provisions in the HALT Solitary law as well as providing amnesty to guards who abandoned their jobs and left incarcerated people on lockdown with limited or no access to food, medicine, medical care, programs, or visits. In response, Jerome Wright, Co-Director of the HALT Solitary Campaign and a survivor of nearly a decade in solitary confinement, released the following statement: