As the 2025 legislative session kicks off, conditions in jails and prisons across the state are deadly and dangerous for incarcerated people and those who work there.
The gruesome killing of Robert Brooks by correctional officers at Marcy Correctional Facility is a stark and gut-wrenching example of the State Commission of Correction (SCOC) failing to fulfill its constitutional mandate: to ensure that state prisons and local jails are “safe, stable, and humane.” For decades, the SCOC has failed to regularly inspect prisons even though they are statutorily responsible for these facilities.
“… put Rikers into federal receivership …”…