‘This Place Is a Circus’: Eight Months Since a Guard Strike, State…

‘This Place Is a Circus’: Eight Months Since a Guard Strike, State…

Everything is under control, lawyers for the state prison system told a judge last week: “At this time, general population across the state is operating as normal.” That’s news to the nearly 1,200 men incarcerated at Auburn Correctional Facility. Prisoners at Auburn are going stir-crazy. Classes, programs, and jobs at the maximum security facility in Cayuga County are mostly canceled. Aside from meal time, people in general population units get …