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NY prison officials warn striking correction officers to get back to work or face termination in last-ditch attempt to stop wildcat action
New York state officials warned prison guards who are still participating in an ongoing wildcat strike Sunday to get back…
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Gov. Hochul’s refusal to address limits to solitary confinement makes the prison strikes more explosive
Leave it to Gov. Kathy Hochul to bungle another crisis — this time, strikes by correction officers at some 30…
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Hochul pitches more prison closures amid riots and illegal corrections officers strike
Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing that up to five more New York state prisons be closed — in what critics…
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State names next two prisons to close later this year
Two upstate prisons holding nearly 1,000 inmates will be shuttered in a few months, correction officials confirmed Thursday — drawing…
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Two NYC correction officers attacked by inmates in one violent day on Rikers Island
Rikers Island inmates assaulted two correction officers in separate attacks Monday, leaving the guards with gruesome injuries to their face…
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Rikers inmate chokes female correction officer weeks after another attack left guard with fractured nasal bones
A crazed inmate nearly choked out a female correction officer on Rikers Island Friday night — less than five weeks…
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