{"id":136562,"date":"2026-02-17T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136562\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:51:12","slug":"new-york-marks-1-year-since-start-of-state-prison-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136562\/","title":{"rendered":"New York marks 1 year since start of state prison strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MALONE, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; It has been one year since thousands of New York prison workers hit the picket lines to protest safety conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state workers demonstrated against what they called dangerous working conditions, including serious staffing shortages. They also asked lawmakers to repeal the controversial HALT Act, which limited solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The wildcat strikes went on for weeks, with both the strikers and the Department of Corrections and Community Provisions failing to reach an agreement four times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Eventually, after 22 days on the picket lines, an agreement was struck, with some safety measures put into place. Some provisions of the HALT Act were also temporarily suspended and a HALT Committee was created, appointing various union and state members to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2025\/09\/22\/union-lawmakers-weigh-proposed-halt-act-changes\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2025\/09\/22\/union-lawmakers-weigh-proposed-halt-act-changes\/\">make recommendations to lawmakers about potential changes to the HALT law.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The strike by the guards violated a state law barring walkouts by most public employees. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed the National Guard to some prisons to take the place of striking workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The strike resulted in the firing of about 2,000 New York prison guards who failed to return to work by the negotiated deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MALONE, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; It has been one year since thousands of New York prison workers hit the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39967,35949,17713,41502,58061,58062,8638,93,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,17712,1635,8098,1986,15254,1631,9864,1068],"class_list":{"0":"post-136562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-act","9":"tag-conditions","10":"tag-country","11":"tag-dangerous","12":"tag-dannemora","13":"tag-halt","14":"tag-malone","15":"tag-new","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-new-york-state","20":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","21":"tag-new-york-state-news","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-north","24":"tag-northern","25":"tag-prison","26":"tag-safety","27":"tag-strike","28":"tag-wcax","29":"tag-workers","30":"tag-york"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}