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☆ How a ‘Blue Wall’ Inside N.Y. State Prisons Protects Abusive Guards
  + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Joseph Neff | Alysia Santo | Tom Meagher | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Mr. Stanbro, however, was accused of assault and after he left the hospital was put in solitary confinement. At Clinton Correctional Facility, near the Canadian border, guards kicked and punched a handcuffed man, breaking his rib. In all three cases, the staff members filed false reports to cover up the assaults, court records show, and faced no discipline. The Marshall Project obtained disciplinary data on more than 290 cases in which the corrections department tried to fire guards or supervisors accused of abusing prisoners. In nearly three-quarters of those cases, the agency also accused the officers of covering up misconduct, often by acting in concert.
☆ In N.Y. Prisons, Guards Who Brutalize Prisoners Rarely Get Fired
  + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Alysia Santo | Joseph Neff | Tom Meagher | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
An officer who broke his baton hitting a prisoner 35 times, even after the man was handcuffed, was not fired. In dozens of documented cases involving severe injuries of prisoners, including three deaths, the agency did not even try to discipline officers, state records show. The records probably reflect only a fraction of the violence guards have inflicted in New York’s corrections system, experts said. These records do not detail prisoner attacks on officers, which the department and the guards’ union said have increased in recent years. A key reason the prison system finds it so hard to get rid of guards is the contract the state signed in 1972 with the union.
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