MEDIA COVERAGE

Fatal Assault on Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility

2025

MEDIA COVERAGE

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul proposes new prison reforms in the face of staffing crisis

published in wxxinews

Troubling conditions at Wallkill Correctional Facility flagged in report

published in Hudson Valley One

State prison watchdog group issues report on Wallkill Correctional

published in Midhudson News

Wallkill prison report finds strengths in programs and safety, but gaps in healthcare

published in FingerLakes 1

Grand jury to hear evidence in inmate’s death at Central NY prison

published in Syracuse.com

Wallkill prison report finds strengths in programs and safety, but gaps in healthcare

published in FingerLakes 1

Legal Aid report shows illegal strike’s toll on prisoners

published in News10

Legislature will soon start “holistic review” of state prison system

published in NNY360

What’s Driving the Uptick in Violence at New York Prisons?

published in Governing

New York prison violence escalates; advocates push for legislation on data transparency

published in CBS6 Albany

After strike, New York's prison oversight group hopes for reforms

published in Watertown Daily Times NY

After the strike, New York state prisons are even more short-staffed than before

published in NPR

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs executive order banning striking corrections officers from state jobs

published in NBC5

Blind spots persist in CNY prisons under slow moving, $600 million camera program

published in CNY Central

Blind spots persist in CNY prisons under slow moving, $600 million camera program
Correctional Association of New York Reports Cameras Have Yet to be Installed at Mid-State Correctional Facility

published in WKTV Utica

New York fires 2K prison officers who refused to return to work after strike

published in USA Today

With most New York prison guards ending strike, governor bars holdouts from state jobs

published in Associated Press

Family of man who died in NY prison speaks out as AG finds probable cause of a crime

on Gothamist

As Seen On

on NBC 4 New York

Bill introduced to create Corrections Labor Practices Board

on ABC News 10

Man inside upstate prison facility claims correctional officers beat them regularly

published in News12 Westchester

The Hidden War Fueling New York’s Prison Guard Strike

published in Inquest

Commentary: How to fix opioid use disorder treatment for people behind bars

on Times Union

Report calls out 'serious concerns' with Mid-State Correctional before inmate death

on CNY Central

CANY reports 'deteriorating conditions' inside Mid-State prison

on Rome Sentinel

Advocates demand action after death of incarcerated individual at Mid-State Correctional Facility

on FingerLakes1

New York’s Prison System Is in Crisis. We Investigated Its Ruling Family.

published in New York Focus

State Senate Corrections Committee chair says DOCCS hasn't asked lawmakers to consider HALT Act changes

on Spectrum News 1

The Martuscello Dynasty:Power and Patronage in New York Prisons

on New York Focus

2024

MEDIA COVERAGE

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How a ‘blue wall of silence’ let Central NY prison guards get away with day of terror

in Syracuse.com

Concerns About Quality of Food in Prisons Increase

in Quova Dis Newspaper

What role will criminal justice reform play in 2025 New York legislative session?

in Spectrum News 1

Inside this maximum security prison, a film festival proves ‘ a little bit healing’

in NPR

Correctional Association of New York pushes for more transparency and oversight in 2024 recommendations

in Spectrum News 1

NYC Juvenile Centers Face 400+ Lawsuits Alleging Decades Of Staff Sexual Abuse

in Harlem World Magazine

How New York’s Maximum-Security Women’s Prison Has Failed to HALT Solitary Confinement

in New York Focus

Incarcerated men at Sing Sing will judge NY’s first known prison film festival

in Gothamist

N.Y. inspector general urges prison system to update data, comply with HALT Act

in Spectrum News 1

Why more NY prison closures could be coming

in The Citizen

Great Meadow Prison will close in November

in NYVT Media

Mixed reaction to New York state's closing of 2 prisons

in Spectrum Local News

Anger over prison closure is bipartisan

in River Reporter

Great Meadow and Sullivan correctional facilities set for closure, sparking debates

in CBS 6 News Albany

New York to Close One of Its Most Notorious Prisons

in New York Focus

Individuals, communities face rippling health effects of incarceration

in Association of Health Care Journalists

N.Y. Prisons Have Ignored Limits on Solitary Confinement, Judge Finds

in The New York Times

Proposal Arises to Close 5 New York Prisons

in WNBF News Radio

NYS must boost its prison watchdog

in New York Daily News

Fishkill Prison Report: Conflicting Accounts

in The Highlands Current

Martuscello confirmed by NY Senate to lead DOCCS

in The Citizen

Western New York towns that host prisons wait to see if their facilities will close

in The Buffalo News

Lawsuit accuses prisons of putting disabled inmates in solitary units

in Times Union

Independent monitor issues report on Fishkill Correctional Facility

in Mid Hudson News

Adirondack legislators raise alarm on potential prison closures

in Adirondack Explorer

New York State can close up to five prisons within the next year

in CBS 6 News Albany

Why thousands of state prison jobs are unfilled

in Adirondack Daily Enterprise

State budget proposal to close five state prisons

in WENY News

In These State Prisons, Addiction Treatment Is Out of Reach

in New York Focus

Auburn museum to host talk on NY prison history

in The Citizen

2023

MEDIA COVERAGE

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Who Watches New York’s Jail Watchdog?

in New York Focus

‘A Waste of Time’: Inside New York’s Broken Jail Accountability System

in New York Focus

2 New York Prisons Get Mixed Review from Watchdog Group

in Times Union

As Overdose Deaths Mount in New York Prisons, Treatment Program Crawls

in New York Focus

Claims of Sexual Assault at NY Prisons Flood in as Deadline Looms

in Gothamist

“Watchdog Warns of Inadequate Prison Grievance System”

in The Capitol Pressroom

“N.Y. prison watchdog report says inmates struggle to voice grievances”

in Times Union

“New Council Bill Would Shine Light on Jail Deaths”

in The City

“The Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums | Correctional Association of New York”

in The BronxNet

“Op-Ed: NY's Correctional System Must Embrace Reforms to Solitary Confinement Policy”

in lohud.com

“Human Rights Watchdog Investigates Landlords, Teachers, and Dentists — But Not Cops or Prison Guards”

in New York Focus

“The ‘Disturbing’ Prison Conditions Facing Chanel Lewis”

in The Nation

“Issues flagged at Marcy state prisons by independent monitoring agency”

in the Daily Sentinel

“Prison task force lays out actions to address ‘unprecedented violence’, still implementing HALT Act”

in CBS 6 Albany

“State Prison System Stays Mum on Deaths Behind Bars”

in The City

“Ambitious Efforts to Reform New York’s Juvenile Justice System Fail in the Legislature”

in The Imprint

“New Prison Chief Is a Son of the System”

in New York Focus

“On the Count - The Prison And Criminal Justice Report”

on WBAI

“East Coast Wildfires Put Incarcerated People on Frontlines of Climate Crisis”

in The Appeal

“How a ‘Blue Wall’ Inside N.Y. State Prisons Protects Abusive Guards”

in the New York Times

“Prison Chief Anthony Annucci to Retire”

in New York Focus

“State expands body scanners in NY prisons, targeting visitors and employees”

in the Times Union

“The New York Law Everyone Is Watching”

in The Nation

“Auburn museum to open new exhibit on Sewards, prison”

on AuburnPub.com

“Dangerous summer heat puts people in NY prison at risk, report says. What are its findings?”

on Lohud.com

“New York’s Imprisoned Women Brave Risks to Sue Sexual Abusers Under New Law”

in The Appeal

“Inflation Is Putting Food Out of Reach in New York Prisons”

in New York Focus

“Commentary: Why is New York letting prisons violate the HALT law?”

in the Times Union

“Groups pursue class-action lawsuit to end 'illegal' solitary confinement”

in the Times Union

“Lawsuit seeks compliance from state prisons with HALT Act”

on WIVB

2022

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“Black, Hispanic people more often disciplined in NY prisons, Inspector General says”

on Lohud.com

“'None of us were heard': Adult Survivors Act opens window for formerly incarcerated to sue”

on Lohud.com

“Solitary by Another Name: How State Prisons Are Using ‘Therapeutic’ Units to Evade Reforms”

on New York Focus

“Former NY women’s prison detainees pursue lawsuit over sex assault and abuse by guards at closed Manhattan lockup”

in the New York Daily News

“As summers get hotter, incarcerated people swelter inside NY prisons”

in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle

“New Package Restrictions at NY State Prisons Create Financial and Emotional Hardships”

in NowThis

“Prison oversight group offers system recommendations”

on the Capital Pressroom

“'Mental Health Units' in Prisons are Solitary Confinement by Another Name, Activists Say”

in Truthout

“New York Prisons Set to Ban Most Packages from Family and Friends”

from New York Focus

“An Overhaul of Prison Healthcare is Long Overdue”

in The Nation

“The prison context itself undermines public health and vaccination efforts”

from the Prison Policy Initiative

“From Rikers to Bedford Hills (And Back)”

from Examiner+

“Two Years Into Pandemic, Basic Critiques of Prison Covid Policies Remain Unaddressed”

from New York Focus

“Hochul Proposes Bringing Back Private Prison Labor”

from New York Focus

“Vacancies and Zombie Commissioners Leave Opening for Parole Reform in New York”

from Bolt Mag

2021

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“Report: Pandemic response slow and inadequate in prisons”

on the Capital Pressroom

“’People Are at a Breaking Point’ After Transfers from Rikers”

in The Nation

“Women Sent from Rikers to Maximum-Security Prison: ‘They Treat Us Like State Property’”

from New York Focus

“Criminal justice advocates applaud Southport prison closure, others worry”

from WSKG

“The Worst Prison in New York State”

in The Nation

“Rikers Crisis Renews Push for State Bill to Create ‘Correctional Ombudsman’ and Oversight Board”

in the Gotham Gazette

“Rikers Detainees Are Being Transferred From One ‘Hellhole’ to Another”

in The Nation

“Prison Agency Resisting Oversight, Says Lawmakers and Watchdogs”

from New York Focus

“50 years after Attica, lawmakers say grim anniversary is a reminder of needed reforms”

from the Legislative Gazette

“Attica: America’s infamous prison uprising is still a story about all of us”

from FingerLakes1.com

“A Warning at Rikers on the Anniversary of a Deadly Prison Uprising”

in the New York Times

“America is Still Locking People Up for Their Activism, Including Black Women”

from Essence

“But Who Oversees the Overseers?: The Status of Prison and Jail Oversight in the United States”

in the American Journal of Criminal Law

“Inside New York’s Grueling Parole Application Process”

from the New York Focus

“Locked In and Locked Out - Prison Life in a Pandemic”

from Birkbeck: University of London

“595 new COVID cases reported in Monroe County, more than 900 hospitalized”

from Democrat & Chronicle

“COVID-19 in New York prisons: 'Positivity numbers represent a system on fire’”

from Lohud.com

“Prioritizing Prisoners for Vaccines Stirs Controversy”

from PEW

2020

Featured
“Cuomo loosens reins on prison access for oversight group”

in the Times Union

“Latest Coronavirus Update”

in The Highlands Current

“Hundreds of inmates test positive as COVID-19 rips through New York prison”

in CBS News

“Coronavirus in Jails and Prison”

in The Appeal

“Virus threat cited in push for oversight of prison medical care”

in the Lockport Union-Sun Journal

“3 Big Ideas to Fuel an Equitable COVID Recovery”

from WHYY

“Measure enabling unscheduled prison monitoring caught in legislative limbo”

on The Capitol Pressroom

“Report details inconsistent procedures in NY prison during COVID-19 outbreak”

in The Daily Orange

“I Can Kill You In Here and No One Would Know It”

in Stories from Arnold Ventures

“Letter to the Editor: NYSCOPBA’s ploy to keep prisons open”

in the Albany Times Union

“Prison oversight reform in New York? (podcast)”

on Fingerlakes1.com

“Prison officers haven’t been held accountable for violence, but a New York bill could change that”

in Prism

“Prison violence demands attention, too”

in the New York Daily News

“Where Hand Sanitizer Is Contraband: Are NY Prisons Ready For Coronavirus?”

in Gothamist

Commentary: "Security Cameras Can't Keep New York Prisons Safe," op-ed by CANY Executive Director Jennifer Scaife

in the Buffalo News

2019

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“Officials Called It a Heart Attack. Inmates Saw a Bloody Beating,”

in The New York Times

Commentary: “The Medieval World of Incarceration,” letter to the editor from CANY Executive Director Jennifer Scaife

in The Atlantic

“A Better Return for Older Prisoners”

in U.S. News & World Report

Commentary: “Shine a Light on Prisons,” letter to the editor from CANY Executive Director Jennifer Scaife

in The New York Times

“Cuomo’s threat to close three prisons has many up in arms,”

in the Recordonline.com

Commentary: “Demand transparency about what happens in prisons,” op-ed from CANY Executive Director Jennifer Scaife

in the Albany Times Union

2018

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“The Tragedy of Mental Illness in American Prisons”

in The Atlantic

“Advocates campaign against solitary confinement in Eltingville with makeshift cell”

in The Staten Island Advance

“U.S. imprisons too many people,” guest commentary from James Connelly

in the Adirondack Daily Express

“Release prisoners from solitary: This is psychological torture any way you put it,” guest commentary from Roger Clark

in the New York Daily News

“Just Treatment: Exploring Cancer Care for Prisoners”

in Cure Today

“Empty Cribs in Prison Nursuries”

in Type-Investigations

“Cameras Actually Tamed Attica, the Brutal Prison I Used to Call Home”

in Vice

“The Prosecution of Noor Salman, Pulse Shooter’s Widow, Highlights the Criminalization of Domestic Abuse Survivors”

in The Intercept

“Make no mistake, solitary confinement is torture,” guest commentary from Erika Bryant

in the Democrat and Chronicle

“Tampons in the mail? Just the beginning of the change we need”

on CNN.com

“Prison Contraband Seizures Up, Guards Say More Can Be Done”

in U.S. News and World Report

“Cuomo’s prison package crackdown is suspended”

in the Albany Times Union

“NY book ban to make prisons "safer" draws backlash”

in the HuffPost

2017

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“All They Want for Christmas is a Limit on Solitary Confinement”

in The Nation