After firing more than 2,000 corrections officers for illegally striking New York State shared plans to release inmates early due to staffing shortages. Department of Corrections and Community

With New York facing a staffing shortage crisis in its prisons, the state’s solution to help ensure an “appropriate balance” between the safety of corrections officers and the public is to release inmates early.

New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks after the state fired more than 2,000 guards who went on strike over poor wor