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Dan Clark / Times Union — (ALBANY) After striking a deal this month with Gov. Kathy Hochul on the most significant package of prison oversight legislation in years, Democrats in the state Legislature say they’re not done with the New York corrections system...
Victor Pate / Syracuse.come — Correction officers brutally beat Robert Brooks to death on video camera. Less than three months later, officers beat 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi to death. This nonchalant brutality takes place daily in prisons across the state. For decades, officers have beaten and killed people, especially Black people, in New York’s prisons — including Leonard Strickland, Samuel Harrell, Karl Taylor, Terry Cooper, John McMillon and countless others — and yet the racist system of brutality continues unabated...
Jerome Wright / Open Letter — To Gov. Hochul and the NYS Legislature, from a survivor of solitary confinement, responding to Hochul's capitulation to the illegal demands of DOCCS and members of NYSCOBA, in an attempt to abrogate the HALT Solitary Law and divert attention from the brutal and racist lynching of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility...
Rebecca McCray / Hell Gate — On Monday morning, state correction officers trickled back to work following a three-week-long wildcat strike that affected nearly all of the state’s 42 prisons and caused disruptions in meals, medication distribution, education and rec programming, and effectively confined incarcerated people to their cells for nearly 24 hours a day in some facilities. Over the course of the strike, seven incarcerated people died, including 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi of the Bronx, who was reportedly beaten to death by correction officers who have since been placed on leave...
Orisanmi Burton / Inquest — New York state prison guards have been on strike since February 17. The strike began in part as a result of attempts by the state to prosecute the death of Robert Brooks, a forty-three-year-old Black father who was serving a twelve-year prison sentence at Marcy Correctional Facility when he was fatally beaten by guards on December 9, 2024...
Rebecca C Lewis / City & State NY — At a time of turbulence for New York’s prisons, a long-sought criminal justice reform measure now has enough support to pass the upper chamber – on paper, at least...
Shantel Destra / New York NOW — For the past several days, corrections officers at prisons across the state have been on strike. Officers are calling for a full repeal of the HALT act, which limits the use of solitary confinement in prisons. At the top of the week, Governor Kathy Hochul said that her administration has tried to negotiate, but would be moving forward with legal proceedings against the officers. By late Thursday, Hochul and the officers union came to a tentative agreement, which meant a 90-day pause on the HALT act. At this time, officers are reviewing the terms of that agreement...
Brendan J. Lyons / Times Union — Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration and union representing more than 13,000 correction officers reach a tentative agreement ...
Jon Campbell / Gothamist — Anthony Douglas, 67, and Franklyn Dominguez, 35, were pronounced dead after they were found unresponsive in their respective cells at the Ossining prison within a five-hour period Wednesday, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed Thursday afternoon...
Dean Moses / AMNY — Families of incarcerated New Yorkers and those who previously served time themselves rallied in Midtown and Albany on Thursday to demand a deep cultural reset in the prisons and jails of the Empire State...
Chris Gelardi: New York Focus – State Senator Julia Salazar and Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest announced the introduction of the “Rights Behind Bars” bill on Thursday...
By : Eduardo Cuevas, lohud. People of color are more likely to face discipline while incarcerated in New York prisons compared to their white counterparts — and disparities appear to have worsened, a new state Inspector General’s report found.
