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"Murder of Prisoners and Guard Protest at Great Meadow." For the last three days, the guards here at Great Meadow have been protesting for lockout of several of their own who were implicated in the murder of a prisoner back in January. Only one local news station reported on this. Very rarely does the murder of prisoners at the hands of guards ever make the news. The death of a kid at Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie back in New York made the news because celebrities, like Cardi B, posted about it on social media. Without such attention, our lives are expendable. The guards in New York state can't legally go on strike, but here, they disrupt facility operations by running things slow, forcing the facility administration and the two captains to come on the scene and give orders and to observe what's going on. If we prisoners ever slowed down facility operations by not going to our work or program assignment, we're going to solitary confinement—the box. All of this stems from an incident back in Januar