Visitation is suspended at all 42 prisons. Gov. Kathy Hochul and DOCCS officials have taken a hardline stance on the strikes, ...
The Center for Community Alternatives, an advocacy group for incarcerated individuals, criticized DOCCS for canceling visitation at Auburn and other prisons amid the correction officer strike.
In a memo Thursday, DOCCS Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III said the department would temporarily suspend portions of the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act during a state ...