Hochul can deploy the National Guard while Wildcat Strikes struck 25 New York prisons

Governor Kathy Hochul threatened Tuesday to use the National Guard to ensure the security of New York prisons after Wildcat strikes by correctional agents spread to more than half of the 42 state penitentiaries.

The threat was a response to the actions of work that started on Monday with police officers assigned to two prisons in the state refusing to come to work to protest against the shortages of staff and other conditions. Tuesday, strikes emerged in 25 prisons, state officials said.

The officers’ union said that he had not authorized employment actions, and Ms. Hochul, calling them “illegal and illegal,” said that she was planning to force the officers at work by invoking a law of The state that prohibits most of New York New York public employees to go on strike.

“We will not allow these people to compromise the security of their colleagues, their imprisoned persons and residents of the communities surrounding our correctional establishments,” the governor said in a statement.

The strikes, the first widespread work stoppage in New York prisons since a 16 -day rating by the officers in 1979, when the state correctional system faces a meticulous examination from the deadly beat of a 43 years old by officers in December.

The criminal charges should be announced Thursday against at least some of the officers and other employees of the Correctional Services Department that State officials involved in the murder of man, Robert Brooks, in the Correctional Establishment of Marcy near ‘Utica.