A 61-year-old inmate died over the weekend at one of the New York prisons where National Guard troops were deployed to replace corrections officers who walked off the job in an illegal strike.

Correction officers protesting outside the New York Correctional Facility are facing serious consequences for each day they remain off the job

More than 100 corrections officers and supporters continued to protest Monday outside the Coxsackie Correctional Facility in New York's Hudson Valley. Around 30 prisons across New York state are affected by the wildcat strikes and picketing.

Correctional officers continued picketing outside of New York State prisons on Thursday despite Governor Hochul and union leaders acknowledging the strikes are