One of the prisons closing is Southport. BAD Super-Max Prison... Yay Hochul. They are coming to live with you at the “mansion!”
“One of the prisons closing is Southport. BAD Super-Max Prison”
Hasn’t been for the past few years. They spent 20 million converting it to a “step down” program jail a year or two ago.
NY has made “solitary confinement” (SHU) essentially illegal. They now can only be put in SHU for a maximum of 15 days, no matter what the infraction is. Kill a staff member? Get outside charges and 15 days. Do you think a lifer gives a crap?
NY prisons have seen dramatic increases in assault on staff and the response from the Commissioner was to send a strongly worded letter to all the inmates.
We are working in much more hazardous conditions than we were in the past and it is only going to get worse.
But hey, some of us still get our 75 cents an hour hazard pay, so it’s all good, right?