A new report by the Legal Aid Society details the ongoing conditions in upstate jails more than two weeks after correction officers agreed to end a months long unauthorized strike.
The strike began in December, which was around the time 10 corrections officers were charged with beating inmate Robert Brooks to death.
During the strike, corrections officers demanded changes to the HALT Act, which limits the use of solitary confinement.
The report features testimony from 24 incarcerated New Yorkers in prisons where correction officers were striking.
According to the testimony, the conditions in state correctional facilities deteriorated as the strike went on and have yet to improve.
Antony Gemmell, supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Prisoners’ Rights Project, joined NY1’s Ayana Harry on “Inside City Hall” Monday to discuss more.
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