This was supposed to be Michael Vasquez’s last month in prison. But since officers walked out of the Woodbourne Correctional Facility this week, Vasquez is worried that after seven years behind bars, he won’t be released as scheduled.
“It makes me angry, but at the same time it makes me fearful,” Vasquez told Gothamist in a phone interview on Friday, hours after phone access was restored to people incarcerated at Woodbourne. “Because if they’re gonna hold me here, what is not to say if one day they say, ‘No we’re not letting you go, you gotta wait until this whole thing is over.’”
Current and retired corrections officers continued to demonstrate on Friday outside dozens of state prisons — including Woodbourne , which is about 100 miles north of Manhattan in Sullivan County. Under New York’s Taylor Law, state employees are not allowed to strike, rendering the actions illegal…