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New York lawmaker demands HALT Act be repealed after Hochul fired 2,000 prison guards

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EXCLUSIVE — A New York lawmaker is calling on the state to repeal the HALT Act, a controversial law at the center of the recent prison guard strike, which ended this week after Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) fired 2,000 correctional…

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NY Counties Defying Dem Governor After She Fired Corrections Officers

Several counties in New York have moved to defy Governor Kathy Hochul’s order that bans the some 2,000 correctional officers she recently fired from ever working for the state again. Hochul fired the officers for continuing to strike over the dangerous conditions inside understaffed prisons across the state. The following day, in a widely criticized ...

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New York lawmaker demands HALT Act be repealed after Hochul fired 2,000 prison guards

EXCLUSIVE — A New York lawmaker is calling on the state to repeal the HALT Act, a controversial law at the center of the recent prison guard strike, which ended this week after Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) fired 2,000 correctional…

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Stec, Gray announce joint resolution to rescend Governor’s CO employment ban

Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) and Assemblyman Scott Gray (R, C-Watertown) today announced a joint legislative resolution to rescind an executive order banning fired correction officers from all government employment. Senate Resolution B515 would eliminate Executive Order 47.3 and restore rights taken away from 2,000 correction officers who went on strike to protest unsafe working

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NY Prison Strike Over

The 22-day walkout by thousands of corrections officers at more than 40 New York State prisons is over, with thousands of officers losing their jobs. The state and the officers struck a deal to end the strike over the weekend, and several thousand agreed to return to work on Monday. However, more than 2-thousand COs who didn’t accept the deal, and didn’t return to work, were fired. New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order banning…

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Guardsmen face 'awful' conditions 'mentally and physically' in NY prisons - Reserve & National Guard

As New York State correctional officers return to work following the official end of the wildcat strike, more than 6,000 New York Army National Guard soldiers and airmen remain in state prisons on an involuntary order to maintain operations. Reports of challenging work conditions for guardsmen in the prisons spread shortly after they were called up on Feb. 17, 2025, to serve as a backfill for thousands of striking correctional officers. The offi…

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Colorado Politics broke the news in on Friday, March 14, 2025.
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