New York Forced To Transfer Inmates to Other Prisons With More Staff as Corrections Officer Strike Stretches Into its Second Week
The director of research for the Empire Center, Ken Girardin, calls the situation ‘extremely dangerous’ for prison system employees and inmates.
New York is struggling to bring an end to a strike involving thousands of corrections officers that is leading to severe staffing shortages in the state’s prisons and concerns about deteriorating safety conditions.
As the state tries to force corrections officers back to work, it has begun transferring inmates in prisons facing staffing shortages to other facilities.
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