(Buffalo, NY) – According to press reports and incarcerated people, guards at multiple New York State prisons have gone on strike, leaving people inside the facilities with limited access to food, medicine, visits, programs, and more. Today, Jerome Wright, Co-Director of the #HALTsolitary Campaign and a survivor of 32 years of incarceration, said the following:
“The illegal work stoppages aim to distract from guards’ and staff unconscionable lynching and killing of Robert Brooks at Marcy Prison as well as rampant guard brutality and abuse throughout the state…