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New York fires 2,000 prison guards who refuse to return to work after wildcat strike

New York fired over 2,000 prison guards for not returning to work after an illegal wildcat strike that lasted 22 days.
The illegal strike violated state law prohibiting strikes by most public employees and was not approved by the guards' union.
Six guards were charged with murder in connection with the death of Robert Brooks at the Marcy Correctional Facility.

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New York Focus

Hochul and Legislators, Urging Action on Prisons, Are Poised for a…

New York’s legislature set Albany on a criminal justice collision course when it released its annual budget counter-proposals Tuesday. Both the Senate and the Assembly omitted Governor Kathy Hochul’s central policing and prosecution policy priorities, even as the chambers embraced her proposals to increase oversight of the state’s embattled prison system. One of Hochul’s priorities this year is to once again alter New York’s 2019 criminal justic…

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New York Amsterdam News

State prison crisis hits home with young Harlemite Messiah Nantwi’s death.

Prison reform advocates rallied outside Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell State Office building last Friday, Mar. 7, after another Black New Yorker’s recent death in state prison. Early reports suggest “extremely disturbing conduct” probably was the cause of 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi being killed at Mid-State Correctional Facility earlier this month, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul. In connection with the death, 15 staff members were placed on leave,…

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NY1

N.Y. inspector general discusses prison strike and more

About 2,000 officers have been fired from their jobs.

1 day ago·New York, United States

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NY Daily News

Striking out on an illegal walkout: Hochul was right to fire the lawbreakers after many warnings

The illegal 22-day strike by state correction officers and correction sergeants impacting nearly all 42 prisons in the state ended the way it had to: with more 2,000 illegal strikers fired Monday when they didn’t report for duty by 6:45 a.m. deadline that morning. We take no joy in the necessary action by Gov. Hochul and Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel Martuscello, but the firings had to happen and Hochul …

2 days ago·New York, United States

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Press-Republican

Republicans ask Trump to order federal pay, benefits for National Guard troops working in N.Y. prisons

At least 6,000 New York National Guard troops have been deployed to state prisons for weeks, helping to preserve safety and order as thousands of corrections officers went on strike,

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