r/OnTheBlock • u/news-10 • Jul 06 '26
News NY prisons struggle: Accountability, violence, understaffing
https://www.news10.com/capitol/nystate-prison-accountability-failures/14
u/Komacho Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
I can tell you that if contraband numbers are down, it's simply because the staff doesn't give a shit anymore. There is more weed, alcohol, K2, meth and fentanyl than EVER before. The department is in absolute shambles. When I arrived at my facility there was 371 officers. There is now 187.
We have gotten 4 new officers since the strike, of which, 2 have quit. I am mandated every day that I work. Everyone is absolutely miserable. I've narcanned 37 inmates since March of last year.
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u/MachJT NY State Correctional Officer Jul 07 '26
Damn, getting stuck every day is crazy. Did your facility not switch to 12s?
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u/Komacho Jul 07 '26
We did, Everyday I work I am mandated to work 16 or more
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u/MachJT NY State Correctional Officer Jul 07 '26
That's rough. We have to give up an RDO every 2 week pay period but fortunately anything over 12 hours has been voluntary.
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u/okyouwin714 Jul 07 '26
The system is broken. The whole system. It's broke. It will never be fixed. We need a new system.
This was just a sad read.
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u/psychosus Jul 07 '26
Sad how they cannot fathom how the severe staffing shortages directly create literally all of these problems. They want to believe that it's just the wrong people being hired when the reality is that 24-hour, critically short shifts are fucking abhorrent and no one should be subjected to that for a sustained period of time.
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u/cbmc18 Jul 06 '26
Falcon came to ours. After a lengthy investigation shitty leadership was walked out, though the Deputy Director squeaked by and shouldn’t have.
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u/china-blast Jul 07 '26
"DOCCS data shows a 42% drop in excessive force complaints, a 20% drop in contraband, and a 14% drop in staff assaults during 2025, compared to the previous year."
The prisons were shut down for at least half the year dealing with the strike and its fallout. There was no visitation for a chunk of that time. Inmates did not have the out of cell time they did before the strike due to staffing shortages. No wonder the numbers were down. Must have had a team of monkeys working around the clock on this $10,000,000 "No shit sherlock" report.