incarcerated people have said the Hochul administration was wrong to partly suspend the HALT law. They accused corrections officers of striking to distract attention from the alleged murder of Robert Brooks, who prosecutors said was beaten to death last year by employees at the Marcy Correctional Facility.
ome Wright, the co-director of the HALT Solitary Campaign. They waited until they heard the Legislature was going to announce a bunch of reforms in the wake of the lynching of Robert Brooks, and they decided at that moment to change the narrative from his life to their safety, which is a lie.