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SCREAMS ECHOED THROUGH the halls of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility as women begged for their solitude to end. The sound of desperate hands banging on cell doors rang out like a solemn chorus. Exhausted, an incarcerated woman named Cici Herrera reached for a book. “That’s the only way I can keep myself from thinking too much,” she said. “I’m going crazy.”

At Bedford Hills, a maximum-security women’s prison in Westchester County, New York, a new superintendent and a recent policy change have sharply restricted the limited freedom incarcerated people in the general population once enjoyed. They could no longer count on regular showers — times were limited to tightly controlled shifts — and indoor recreation was eliminated even on the coldest days of the New York winter. The women found themselves locked inside of their single cells for the majority of the day, in conditions detention experts and survivors of solitary confinement compared to solitary confinement.

The conditions likely violate state law, according to multiple detention experts, all of whom have spoken with people incarcerated at Bedford. The new restrictions put the women in the middle of a political battle between activists who fought to place restrictions on the use of solitary and prison guards who have protested their implementation.

The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has denied these accusations.

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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The new superintendent's name is Linda Carrington-Allen. Source

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 30 points 2 months ago

Wow the visiting hours are even set up in a way that no person with a job will ever be able to make them.

Talking about cruel and unusual punishment… That’s what this is.

Your country is rotten to the core Americans.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In some Nazi concentration camps, the steps that forced laborers had to climb while heavily laden were deliberately made of different heights to make the ordeal even worse. This is the same disgusting and abysmal malice. Pure evil for which there can be no excuse.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It even has conflucting information on arrival times, because of course the scum that run these places are as unintelligent as they are evil.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

March added that many facilities still lack adequate staffing due to an unauthorized prison guard strike in spring of 2025

Cute. I like how March places the blame for low prison staffing on the union, instead of on low wages, cuts to benefits, and ICE recruiting prison guards to go on ~~slave~~ immigration patrols.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago