State prison guards in New York Wildcat for investigating to overcome the Decision's death

New York prison guards beat Robert Brooks, a detainee at Marcy Correctional Facility, December 9, 2024.

New York’s Democratic Governor, Kathy Hoch, mobilized 3,500 National Guard soldiers to enter the state prisons in response to a Wildcat strike by correction officers, now in the second week.

Prison guards claim that they protest against which they are obliged to work under what they claim to be dangerous conditions. However, the immediate trigger was the imminent indictment of some of them for the brutal beats at the death of a prisoner at Marcy Correctional Facility, near Utica, New York, in December.

At least 17 prison guards and other correction employees were involved in the 43 -year -old’s fatal prisoner, Robert Brooks. The brutal attack was recorded on the guards’ body chambers. The videos show Brooks, which was shaken and handcuffed at that time, being hit with a fist, hit and handled violently. Brooks’ death was led by homicide by the medical examination office in Onondaga county.

On Thursday, a large jury indictment was released in Brooks’s death. Six correction officers were accused of killing the second degree and killing of grade I. In addition, two of them were accused of tape attack. Three other officers were accused of murder for not intervened to stop the fatal attack.

In the state of New York, public employees, including prison guards, are forbidden to hit under what is known as Taylor Law. The action of the guards, which started at two facilities, Monday, February 17, has now spread to all 42 state prisons. It was not officially called by their Union, the state correctional officers in the state of New York and the voluntary police association, offering the union management “plausible reliability” of legal responsibility for the action at work.

Hoch is dealing with the children’s gloves, as the courts have. Instead of issuing an immediate decision, which would probably have been done against any other group of state employees, a judge of the Supreme State Court ordered the officers to return to work according to their action.

The news reports indicate that the National Guard initially entered the facility of the correction of Attica, the place of the brutal massacre by the police in 1971, ordered by the then governor Nelson Rockefeller, of the detainees who took over the facility to protest inhuman conditions.

In response to the strike, the state corrections and commissioner Daniel Martuscello, III, issued pro formas that sought to characterize Brooks’s murder as uncharacteristic of the state prison system.

The Union also issued a statement that describes Brooks’s brutal beating as “does not reflect the vast majority of our belonging every day.” Also, he did not express “any confidence” in the Commissioner, claiming that dangerous conditions were created due to insufficiency – as if this brutality justifies the detainees. In fact, the Union argues that the guards can abuse and even kill the prisoners with impunity.

The legal assistance society has accused that the strike is intended to become attention from Brooks’s killing.

The correction officers also protest in a law of the state of 2021, which has put some restrictions on the use of solitary prison, an inhuman practice used for the discipline of prisoners. The law, known as human alternatives to the Law Law Law (Halt), must limit individual solitary imprisonment episodes to 15 consecutive days. It seems that the guards believe that it has changed the balance of power between them and the detainees (ie they put some limitations on their ability to impose a terror regime). One of the main goals of the strike seems to be the repeal of the law.

The trials documented that the Penitentiary State Agency, the Community Corrections and Supervisory Department (DOCCS), has repeatedly thrown away the Hall provisions, including sending people with solitary disabilities, sending people to solitary for minor crimes and the prolonged refusal of social interaction. , among others.

Again, the guards claim an absolute right to use any method, no matter how wild, against the detainees.

In response to the strike, some stop provisions have been suspended for an unspecified period. The project for the rights of the prisoners from the Legal Assistance Society reported that the detainees complained that they were blocked in their cells, cut access to medical and mental care, food, heat, electricity, showers and other basic needs.

The aggressive behavior of prison guards against prisoners is a routine appearance in New York and at national level. The Mary’s facility itself has a historian of violence by the staff, which was documented by the correctional association of the New York Prison Supervisory Group. In 2016, for example, the correction officers revolted as a result of a false report according to which a guard was assaulted by a prisoner.

The latest incident reported in New York took place shortly before the current guards strike. The prisoners from another state prison, the correctional facility of Collins in Erie County, apparently triggered by a violation of the minor rules – the discovery of two mobile smuggling phones in the possession of an individual – have resolved in a disproportionate punitive action. It involved an unjustified blocking of prisoners in three homes for several hours, followed by a strong “resumption” of the homes involving the police and the response teams to correctional emergencies. There was no violence from the detainees. However, it was initially described in the news accounts as a “uprising” prisoner.

There is a well -established tradition of abuse and torture in the prisons of New York State. The separate civil processes submitted in December 2023 by two prisoners in the state of New York highlight the brutality and horror of the American gulag. The applicants reported that they were beaten wildly by a prison and embarked on another in October.

In New York City, the infamous Rikers Island, the largest prison complex in the United States, is notorious for the deaths of prisoners, disease, dirt and barbarian violence. Many of his occupants are detained before the trial, legally innocent, not being convicted of a crime. In a movement that will increase the police terror in Rikers, the city’s democratic mayor, Eric Adams, has now allowed immigration officers and customs to enter the installation, a contravention of the laws of the city sanctuary.

The United States has the largest prison population in the world, with about 1.9 million in March 2023, according to the initiative of penitentiary policy, representing about 25 percent of the total world. This reflects the big and increasing social inequality of the country and the increasing use of violence by the leading class to defend its interests, both abroad and at home.

The prisons and their staff, as part of the entire legal system, are one of the primary tools used by the leading class to suppress the working class by using terror and physical control. The existing brutality of the US prison system is a warning. President Trump’s plan to build massive camps to hold migrants without documents presents the extension of the Gulag prison to incarcerate anyone who defies their dictatorial rule, unless it is stopped by a revolutionary fight to end capitalism by working class.