National Guard members deployed in New York prisons have endured unacceptable treatment, including female members filmed changing clothes and exposure to noxious fumes from makeshift drug use, The Post has learned.
Governor Kathy Hochul drafted in 8,200 members of the state National Guard and declared a state of emergency in February after an illegal strike by prison workers left facilities dramatically understaffed.
However, after being mandated for duty, the guardsmen were badly trained and subjected to various horrors in the prison environment, according to a source.
A group of eight female members stationed at the Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY, were housed in prison facilities where they were allegedly subject to “humiliating surveillance” by video while they slept and changed their clothes…