A Quieter Budget Battle on Criminal Justice and Prison Reform

A Quieter Budget Battle on Criminal Justice and Prison Reform

With the deadline to pass New York’s state budget legislation less than a month away, governing bodies aren’t battling over the criminal justice system as they have in the past. Yet they also aren’t proposing major reforms, even as the state’s prisons are enduring one of their most tumultuous periods in half a century. Two killings by guards and a three-week corrections officer strike left the prison system in crisis last year. After the first k…