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A leading statewide advocate is calling for reform after a recent New York State Inspector General report found Black and Hispanic individuals are more likely to face disciplinary action than others incarcerated in New York state.
A security fence surrounds the inmate housing on New York's Rikers Island correctional facility in New York.
After a NYS Inspector General report earlier this month found that Black and Hispanic incarcerated individuals were more likely to be disciplined than white incarcerated individuals in New York prisons, we talk with Jerome Wright, (Twitter:@JMrWright316) who spent 30 years in prison and now leads the HALT Solitary Campaign (http://nycaic.org/) and (Twitter:@NYCAIC). Then Teresa Watson, Housing Justice Organizer, with People United for Sustainable Housing/PUSH Buffalo (Twitter:@PUSHBuffalo) discusses reforms that would change the housing climate across the all of Buffalo.
A leading statewide advocate is calling for reform after a recent NYS Inspector General report found Black and Hispanic individuals are more likely to face disciplinary action than others incarcerated in New York State. And he says inmate frustration at Attica Correctional Facility is at an all time high.
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