Unshowered and Hungry, Incarcerated People Wait Out Prison Guard Strike
Chris Gelardi & Sara G. Kielly / New York Focus — With nearly all of New York’s state prisons on lockdown, those on the inside struggle to get by...
Families of incarcerated call for justice amid prison protests
Carina Dominguez / NEWS10 — As corrections officers demonstrate across upstate correctional facilities, family members of incarcerated individuals gathered at the capital and called for justice. They want to shed light on, what they called, ongoing brutality behind bars...
Hochul’s proposal to close 5 more NY prisons rankles state GOP
Austin C Jefferson, City & State NY: STATE CAPITOL — ANew York’s prison population has nearly halved since 1999, and there is a staffing shortage plaguing the state’s remaining facilities. But Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to close five more state prisons in the next fiscal year has still irked state legislative Republicans – who said the plan disregards public safety and prison worker livelihoods...
Out of Prison, Meat in the Game: Anthony Dixon vs the Matrix
By: susie day, CounterPunch+ -- "At seven, Anthony was sent to the New York Children’s Village, a facility for “troubled children,” where he remained until he was nine. As he grew older, he spent more time in various forms of state custody. In fact, Anthony, now 61, estimates that, since his first encounter with “the system,” he has lived maybe eight years of his life outside an institution...."