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Prison guards at upstate New York prisons have walked off the job in an illegal strike to protest working conditions, and a state law that restricts solitary confinement. Jimmy Vielkind, New York State issues reporter for WNYC, reports on what the corrections officers are demanding, conditions for inmates inside the prisons and the tentative deal the state and the union have reached to end the strike.
Prison guards at upstate New York prisons have walked off the job in an illegal strike to protest working conditions, and a state law that restricts solitary confinement. Jimmy Vielkind, New York State issues reporter for WNYC, reports on what the corrections officers are demanding, conditions for inmates inside the prisons and the tentative deal the state and the union have reached to end the strike.