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Insider leaks footage of violence in NY prisons after Dems pass ‘inmate rights’ bill

February 28, 2025 | | Print Article

Stunning new video footage from New York’s state prisons demonstrates how violent they’ve become ever since Democrats passed the HALT Act.

Signed into law by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2021, the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement (HALT) Act handcuffed prison workers, making it harder for them to keep inmates under tight control, according to retired officer Edward Meyer.

“This HALT Act is horrible,” he recently told local station WGRZ. “It’s just completely horrible. Everything is anti-law enforcement, pro criminal, and it has been for years. It’s been conditionally getting worse.”

The proof of this can be seen in the video below leaked to The Daily Wire by an anonymous insider source (*Graphic content):

“I send this footage to you to help the public understand what it is we face and why we are on strike,” the source said. “This is not about money. It’s about how the liberal agenda has destroyed our justice system.”

“HALT has stripped us of our ability to incentivize good behavior among the inmate population and deter them from attacking us. We have been deprived of our authority to control the inmates that we are charged to supervise, are swallowing our pride, and losing our souls in the process,” the source added.

The conditions inside the state’s prisons grew so bad because of the HALT Act, as well as because of unsanitary and unsafe conditions, that fed-up prison employees eventually decided to strike.

When they went on strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul responded by deploying National Guard troops to take over their stations. The troops in turn later ran to the media to confirm that the striking workers’ weren’t wrong.

“Each prison is different but across the board it’s just terrible — we all agree that Afghanistan was better than the conditions in these prisons,” one National Guard member told station News 12+.

“None of the troops are able to go home so what they’ve brought with them to the prison is what they’ve got. We have to request supplies be brought to the prisons because there isn’t enough water or food. The MRE’s, they are there sometimes, but not all the time,” they added.

“We have soldiers getting feces thrown at them, [bodily fluids] thrown at them,” another National Guard member told the station. “They are responding to suicide calls by inmates. This isn’t what we train for.”

Despite this, Hochul outright attacked the striking workers during a press conference Tuesday by threatening to both arrest them for violating the law and remove their workplace benefits.

“We’ve had to start legal proceedings against these individuals — not something I ever would want to do, but I have a law to enforce,” she said. “We’ve also let them know that if you are striking, you’re AWOL. You no longer secure the right to have health benefits from the state.”

According to another source who spoke with The Daily Wire, the governor has been using a bevy of scare tactics to try to force the striking employees back to work.

“Hochul has been aggressive with her scare tactics, having administrative personnel call staff at home, ordering them to return to work,” the source said. “Even those on sick leave, worker’s compensation leave, pre-approved vacation time, and bereavement leave are receiving these phone calls; being told that if they fail to report that they would be considered AWOL, docked two days pay for each shift missed and lose their health insurance.”

“Many of us cannot afford to lose our jobs and health insurance, many of us live paycheck to paycheck. But in spite of this fact, we cannot continue to face the long mandated hours in violent, unsafe prisons. We are losing our families and missing our children grow. We spend long hours in a horrific environment that destroys our empathy and then we are expected to act normal and hide the nightmare from our families,” they added.

However, anger is now mounting against her as her antics are being exposed.

Observe:

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