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"Silencing the Unique Collective Voice of Prisoners." A decision and order dated December 5th, 2019, the United States Justice Court for the Northern District of New York dismissed several of my claims raised in my amended complaint. For those of you not familiar, whenever you file suit in the federal court system, you use what is called a complaint to plead your causes of action. That is, what was done to you and how it violated your rights under the law. In my amended complaint—which superseded my original complaint—I raised several class action allegations, but they all can be summed up to this: the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for years has instituted and affirmed policies, practices, procedures, and customs, systematically, and unreasonably depriving prisoners of their personal liberties and freedoms protected under the United States Constitution. These policies, practices, procedures, and customs are designed to silence, humiliate, and destroy the dignity of prisone