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NY Prisons Under Fire | New York City News
A damning $10 million report exposes New York’s prison system as dangerously understaffed, riddled with fear, and failing at rehabilitation — with two inmate deaths last year sparking a reckoning. Chronic neglect, weak accountability, and a toxic “us vs. them” culture fuel violence, while officers who treat inmates humanely are mocked as “inmate lovers.” Discipline rarely sticks — arbitrators routinely overturn firing decisions — and pepper spray use has skyrocketed from 124 to 4,700 incidents in a decade. Black inmates face worse treatment from a mostly white staff, and outdated training…
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