The HALT Solitary Confinement Act altered the balance of power within New York’s prisons.

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    2 days ago

    Essentially, they are complaining that they can no longer torture folks.

    seems to be. I had not seen any detail on the strike and, if this is one of the primary reasons behind the action, then fuck 'em.

    if you have to torture people to achieve goals under what I am sure must be systemic deficiencies, then you have lost the fucking plot. you are the tool of oppression, goodbye.

    this is the first explanatory article I have seen. are we missing important context somewhere?

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      2 days ago

      They do have good cause to strike. Staffing shortages have been bad in most prisons since COVID.

      But, because they’re short staffed and our justice system routinely dumps mentally ill folks in prisons. And guards aren’t mental health workers. And prison’s rarely do enough mental health programming or staff enough professionals to take care of the population. The cops end up thinking the only way they have to manage the situation is to torture folks by tossing them in solitary. Because that’s what they’ve been doing up until NY passed a bill to stop it.

      Sorry those sentences are oddly formatted. A bit stoned.