A two-year Marshall Project investigation examined 12 years of New York State Department of Corrections disciplinary records. The investigation found that a staggering three out of four prison guards who were once fired for prisoner abuse, were later reinstated through the arbitration process. Joseph Neff, staff reporter for The Marshall Project, joins us. His piece, co-authored with Alysia Santo titled, ‘A Crazy System’: How Arbitration Returns Abusive Guards to New York Prisons was co-published by the New York Times and The Marshall Project.

Read the article here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/12/14/new-york-prison-correctional-officer-abuse-arbitration

—-

Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page

The post How NY Prison Guards Unions Defend Abusive Guards w/ Joseph Neff appeared first on KPFA.