Joseph Neff Focus

Dec 14, 2023 | thedailystar.com | Alysia Santo |Joseph Neff |Joseph Neff Focus

A guard working at a Hudson Valley prison pummeled a 19-year-old shackled by the legs to a restraint chair. An officer at a facility near the Canadian border denied food to a man in solitary confinement 13 times over a week. Outside Albany, a guard told a prisoner, “That’s how you get dumped on your ******* head,” then smashed his head into a wall. Each time, New York state officials fired the guards. Each time, they appealed. Each time, private arbitrators gave the officers their jobs back.