For decades, the workings of the prison discipline system had been hidden from public view under a secrecy law adopted at the urging of the state’s powerful law enforcement unions. But after the Legislature repealed that law in 2020, The Marshall Project obtained more than 5,600 records of disciplinary cases against prison employees — for issues ranging from physical abuse of prisoners to sleeping on the job — dating to 2010.
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In New York, Prison Guards Who Attack Prisoners Rarely Get Fired | The Marshall Project