Posted on 04/24/2025 9:08:20 AM PDT by dynachrome
National Guard members deployed in New York prisons have endured unacceptable treatment, including female members filmed changing clothes and exposure to noxious fumes from makeshift drug use, The Post has learned.
Governor Kathy Hochul drafted in 8,200 members of the state National Guard and declared a state of emergency in February after an illegal strike by prison workers left facilities dramatically understaffed.
However, after being mandated for duty, the guardsmen were badly trained and subjected to various horrors in the prison environment, according to a source.
A group of eight female members stationed at the Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY, were housed in prison facilities where they were allegedly subject to “humiliating surveillance” by video while they slept and changed their clothes.
The women had asked for the video surveillance to be switched off, but the cameras remained on, the source told The Post.
“They were told that the cameras were not active, but they knew the cameras were on because of offhand comments made by prison staff,” the source said, adding the women are now seeking legal representation.
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I thought Maine and a lot of other Blew States said this was okay.
Bukele for Governor of New York.
The NY National Guard has become the one-party leftist state and Governor’s personal police force
Cuomo had them giving out Covid vaxxes and mopping hospital floors
Hochel has them working in prisons or patrolling NY City subways
what a f***ing joke.
First of all, why does the Guard need to be deployed to Prisons?
2nd, why females?
3rd, I spent 5 years in my church’s prison ministry and saw plenty of female guards co-mingling with inmates right outvin the yard space......can’t say I agreed with that much.....just a tragedy waiting to happen IMO.
WUT? Prisons suck?
They were not prisoners
Because the politicians in New York can't hire sufficient guards to staff the prisons. This is what happens when governments fail.
But your son or daughter should proudly serve in the New York National Guard. /sarc
BTTT
In a way, they were. Voluntarily.
In the book, BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, author Tom Wolfe describes New York as a great social experiment. Pretty close to reality.
“First of all, why does the Guard need to be deployed to Prisons?”
OP, 2nd sentence
The state prison guards in Florida got a raise a few years ago to $35,000 a year....think about that for a second.
And somehow the DOC gets along without Governor DeSantis calling in the National Guard.
Just one more contrast between a red and blue state.
How depraved is that?! Very!
Exactly.
Is Trump against it? Then it’s okay.
Come on. They couldn’t be that hot. You’d think they’d be working at Hooters.
“The state prison guards in Florida got a raise a few years ago to $35,000 a year.”
That must be bare-bones starting pay.
Not even Florida is that inexpensive.
Ain’t democrats great! s/
I know that. But they still got the experience.
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