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There's a crisis brewing here at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York that keeps spilling over into violence. And it has to do with how badly mismanaged this prison is. Before I was unjustly placed into solitary confinement I was a member of the ILC here, which stands for the Inmate Liaison Committee. The ILC represents the prison population for our regular, monthly meetings with the facility administration. I became the A block ILC rep after A block prisoners voted me into that position in a landslide.In fact, I was the only ILC rep in general population. The other three guys were on the block, which has minimal contact with the larger general population blocks. The number one issue I hear over and over again is the lack of phones in the prison yard. There are only 35 phones out there and they continuously go out of service.On any given day down about 200 to 300, prisoners in the yard vying over about 30 available phones, and many of these prisoners are gang members or are part of some cl