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Two murders and a strike by correction officers inside New York State prisons have exposed a system at its breaking point. Could a major uprising be next? Plus:

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For men with memories of abuse by correction officers, footage of a fatal beating was “like a boomerang,” one said. Illustration by Emiliano Ponzi

Jennifer Gonnerman

A staff writer covering the prison system.

For decades, people who were incarcerated in New York State’s prisons have recounted tales of brutality at the hands of correctio

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