ALBANY – Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to come clean about this year’s massive corrections workers strike and whether she knew about the brewing “powder keg” in state prisons.

The Republican North Country rep, in a statement first obtained by The Post, said Hochul “must immediately address” a new report by the prison workers’ union largely blaming the state for allegedly ignoring warning signs of the simmering crisis and strike threats.

“What did she know, when did she know it, and why did she refuse to act?,” Stefanik writes in the statement. 3

Thousands of corrections officers illegally walked off the job in February, requiring Hochul to deploy over 6,000 National Guard troops to supplement staffing shortages in the problem-plagued facilities.

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