08/24/2026
HCHC is clear: cages do not create safety. Prisons are institutions built on punishment, control, isolation and violence — and what is being reported at Greene Correctional Facility is exactly why we organize toward abolition.
According to the Correctional Association of New York, incarcerated people at Greene reported widespread staff abuse, racialized mistreatment, retaliation and a grievance system they overwhelmingly do not trust.
These are our family members. Our neighbors. Our people.
And we need to be just as clear about who holds power right now.
New York has a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Senate and a Democratic Assembly. A Democratic trifecta controls the state government responsible for these facilities. There is no Republican legislature to blame. There is no divided government to hide behind.
If people are being abused inside a New York State prison, the people governing New York have a responsibility to answer for it.
Understaffing cannot become an excuse for abuse. Overtime cannot become an excuse for racism. A staffing crisis cannot become permission for retaliation, degradation or violence against incarcerated people.
We reject the idea that the solution is simply more officers, more cages or more money poured into a system producing this harm.
We demand accountability. Independent oversight. Protection for people who report abuse. Meaningful access to families, education, programming and reentry support. And we demand that New York begin moving resources away from punishment and toward housing, health care, mental health support, education, youth, restorative justice and the communities our people return home to.
Abolition means refusing to accept abuse as the cost of incarceration.
It means refusing to disappear people once the prison gates close behind them.
And it means holding the people with political power accountable when the state harms our families.
Our people are not disposable.
HCHC will continue to speak, organize and fight for them — inside and outside the walls.
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