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Albany, NY – As the 2022 New York State Legislative session ends, the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, Inc. (NYSCOPBA) react to the New York State Legislature’s failure to address the significant rise in violence in New York’s correctional facilities since the implementation of HALT Act on April 1, 2022. Not only did members of the New York State Legislature repeatedly fail to pass NYSCOPBA-sponsored legislation which would commission a prison violence study prior to HALT’s enactment, but the Democratic Majority of both the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate refused to allow Republican-introduced legislation to repeal the HALT Act to move forward in either chamber.