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A Week Full of Violent Incidents Plague Marcy and Mid-State Correctional Facilities
Marcy, NY – Numerous violent attacks by inmates upon one another and towards staff are reported in a one week stretch at Marcy Correctional Facility and neighboring Mid-State Correctional Facility, both medium-security prisons in the Mohawk Valley. Full Press Release.
Multiple Unprovoked Throwing Incidents by Inmates Towards Staff Reported at Wende and Lakeview Correctional Facilities
Several Officers Struck with Unknown Liquids, Requiring Treatment Alden and Brocton, NY – Several reports of throwing incidents by inmates aimed at staff have been reported at two Western New York correctional facilities. The incidents were unprovoked and involved...
Officer Injured During Inmate Attack at Mohawk Correctional Facility
Officer Struck with Fire Extinguisher in the Head May 10, 2023 Rome, NY – A 34 year old inmate serving a second stint in state prison, attacked and struck an officer in the head with a metal fire extinguisher as the officer attempted to break up fight between two...
Female NYS Correction Officers Demand Legislative Action to Protect Them from Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assaults in NYS Prisons
Since the Enactment of the HALT Act in April 2022, the Frequency and Severity of Sexually Charged Incidents by Inmates Against Staff has Significantly Increased Violent Assaults Against Staff Has Increased Nearly 30% since HALT Over 15% of NYSCOPBA’s 16,000 Active...
Officers Assaulted, Injured at Otisville Correctional Facility
Otisville, NY – Four officers needed to be treated at a local hospital after an inmate head butted two officers and fought with staff attempting to contain him after he initially was found masturbating in his housing cube at the medium security correctional facility....
Officer Sustains Eye Injury at Five Points Correctional Facility
Romulus, NY – An officer just returned to duty from blurred vision after an inmate threw an unknown liquid that smelled of urine and chemicals at the officer, striking him in the head, face, eyes and mouth at the maximum security correctional facility last week. Full...
Multiple Assaults Occur in April at Mid-State Correctional Facilities
Marcy, NY – The month of April proved to be extremely violent at the medium security correctional facility with one officer attacked and cut with a weapon and one inmate stabbed several times by another inmate in a facility bathroom. Full Press Release
Inmate Slashed Twice at Elmira Correctional Facility
Elmira, NY – An inmate who is serving a 25 year sentence for Manslaughter 1st, was slashed twice in the face with cutting type weapons at the maximum security prison last week. Full Press Release
Gang Fight among Inmates Occurs at Coxsackie Correctional Facility
Coxsackie, NY – Two alleged gang fights broke out in the recreation yard at the maximum security correctional facility at the end of April, causing minor injuries to the inmates involved. Full Press Release
Multiple Visitors Arrested at Cayuga Correctional Facility
Cayuga, NY – Six women were arrested and charged with promoting prison contraband after a K9 alerted to them while carry drugs during inmate visits on two days in April at the medium security correctional facility. Full Press Release
Inmate Violently Attacks Staff at Upstate Correctional Facility
Malone, NY – An inmate, who initially refused staff directions to walk to his cell, injured multiple officers, sending four to local hospitals for injuries sustained containing the combative inmate at the maximum security correctional facility last week. Full Press...
Staff Injured at Orleans Correctional Facility
One Officer Sustains Fracture to Hand Albion, NY – An inmate, who was intoxicated on a unknown drug, attacked and injured four staff members at the medium security correctional facility last Friday. On April 14, and officer was conducting routine rounds in one of the...
Officers Assaulted, Injured at Otisville and Sullivan Correctional Facilities
Otisville, NY – Six officers from Sullivan Correctional Facility and one officer from Otisville were treated at a local hospital for injuries that occurred when two inmates attacked them in separate incidents. The assaults occurred following two other attacks at...
Staff Injured at Fishkill Correctional Facility
Fishkill , NY – Two sergeants and three officers were injured in an inmate attack which initially began in a facility mess hall and ended in one of the housing units after a lengthy foot chase through the medium security prison. Full Press Release
Staff Injured at Collins Correctional Facility
Eight Officers Injured In Attacks By Inmates Under the Influence of Alleged Drugs Collins , NY – A sergeant and seven officers sustained minor injuries in four separate incidents at the medium security correctional facility in the past two months, continuing the surge...
Officer Injured at Green Haven Correctional Facility
Stormville, NY – A 31 year old inmate serving his second stint in prison for weapons possession, injured an officer when he picked up a dumbbell and threw it at the officer’s upper body at the maximum security correctional facility last weekend. Full Press Release
Officers Injured at Marcy & Mid-State Correctional Facilities
Marcy, NY – Two officers were injured at Marcy and Mid-State Correctional Facilities after two separate inmate attacks at the medium security correctional facilities. Full Press Release
Record Number of Violent Assaults in Prisons Set During the First Full Year of the HALT Act
Once HALT was Implemented in April 2022, Prison Violence Immediately Increased Nearly 40% and has Consistently Remained at that Level Since. Full press Release
More Officers Injured at Orleans Correctional Facility
Albion, NY – On the same day an officer was brutally attacked and beaten by an inmate inside one of the facility dorms, several staff members sustained injuries when inmates fought with staff during random pat frisks for contraband at the medium security correctional...
Officers Viciously Attacked at Orleans Correctional Facility
Albion, NY – An inmate, serving a 25 years to life sentence for murder, viciously attacked an officer inside of one of the housing dorms at the medium security correctional facility last weekend. Full Press Release
Wende Correctional Facility Officers Injured in Inmate Attack
Three Officers Injured in Incident Inmate Sets Tablet on Fire at Attica Correctional Facility, Sending Officer to the Hospital for Smoke Exposure Alden, NY - Three officers from Wende Correctional Facility were injured last Friday after an inmate attacked one officer...
Nine Officers Injured at Sing Sing Correctional Facility
Three Convicted Murderers Conduct Consecutive Attacks in Cell Blocks on Staff Ossining, NY – Seven officers were transported to local hospitals after an initial attack on staff escalated into two other assaults on officers in a cell block at the maximum security...
Inmate Violently Attacks Staff at Upstate Correctional Facility
Malone, NY – An inmate, serving his second stint in state prison, viciously attacked staff inside his cell after officers entered the cell to check on his well-being last Tuesday at the maximum security correctional facility. Full Press Release
Officer Injured at Cayuga Correctional Facility
Cayuga, NY – An inmate serving his second stint in prison, attacked and jumped on officer slamming him several times into the floor at the medium security correctional facility last week. Full Press Release
Unrest Continues at Five Points Correctional Facility
Romulus, NY – Several officers’ sustained minor injuries and others had urine thrown on them in five separate incidents that occurred at the maximum security correctional facility since February 8 through last week. Full Press Release
Officer Stabbed at Franklin Correctional Facility
Malone, NY – Three officers were injured by an inmate and one officer was stabbed with a make-shift weapon yesterday the medium security correctional facility. Full press Release
Multiple Officers Injured at Attica Correctional Facility
Two Separate Attacks Sends Two Officers to Local Hospital Attica, NY – Multiple staff were injured at Attica Correctional Facility in two separate attacks that sent two officers to a local hospital to be treated for their injuries. The first attack occurred on...
Multiple Weapons Seized Riverview Correctional Facility
Ogdensburg, NY – Officers recovered over 50 make-shift weapons from Riverview Correctional Facility after officers conducted a week long search last month at the medium security correctional facility after there was an attempted inmate slashing at the prison. Full...
Inmate Attacks Staff at Elmira Correctional Facility
Elmira, NY – A 35 year old inmate serving a life sentence for a brutal murder in Syracuse in 2015, attacked and injured staff at the maximum security correctional facility on Sunday. Full Press Release
Two Officers Injured at Gouverneur Correctional Facility
Gouverneur, NY – An inmate, who initially refused to leave his cell to attend a scheduled court appearance, struck several officers and fought with them as they attempted to contain him at the medium security correctional facility last week. Full Press Release