Prison reform advocates blasted last-minute changes made by the governor to a prison reform bill she signed into law last week.
In Albany on Tuesday, prison reform advocates, community leaders and formerly incarcerated people gathered to condemn the recently amended and passed version of the Prison Reform Omnibus Bill, which they say was stripped of key provisions and will allow for abuses in the state’s troubled prisons to continue.
Thomas Kearney, an organizer for the prison reform advocacy groups the New York State Jails Justice Network and the Capital Area Relief & Liberation, called the amended version of the bill a “betrayal” following the deaths of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi, who were killed inside state prisons by correctional officers in the past year…