A BROKEN PROMISE to REFORM New York’s DEADLY prisons has been exposed by a man CONDEMNED TO DIE behind bars. In a SHOCKING exclusive, lifer LaMarr Knox reveals how Governor Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers have ABANDONED thousands to a “death by incarceration” sentence, opting for empty motivational stunts over REAL freedom.
Knox, 51 and serving a 62-year-to-life sentence, details a DEVASTATING betrayal. After a statewide guard strike paralyzed the system, Hochul’s pledge for quarterly clemency decisions VANISHED. THREE critical reform bills—the Earned Time Act, the Second Look Act, and the Marvin Mayfield Act—were LEFT TO DIE without a vote. Meanwhile, the Department of Corrections sent prisoners tablets announcing a partnership with a “Second Chance University”—a CRUEL JOKE in a system that OFFERS NO SECOND CHANCES.
“The only way out of here is in a body bag,” Knox writes, exposing the HARSH REALITY that the average inmate dies at age 57. With his first parole hearing not until 2056, he represents thousands for whom rehabilitation is a MEANINGLESS PERFORMANCE with no hope of reward. “Without any possible avenue to earn an earlier release, there’s simply no incentive… over politicking in the yard.”
This is not just policy failure; it is STATE-SANCTIONED DESPAIR. Officials tout “transparency” and “partnerships” while systematically BLOCKING every legislative path to justice. They offer motivational speakers INSTEAD of mercy, seminars INSTEAD of sentences commuted. The message to incarcerated New Yorkers is clear: YOU ARE WORTH MORE DEAD THAN REHABILITATED.
As the public sleeps, a hidden population is being ERASED—not by violence, but by CALCULATED NEGLECT and political COWARDICE. The legislature could change this with a stroke of a pen. Their silence is a verdict. America is building tombs, not citizens, and signing death warrants with every delayed reform. What does it say about our society when hope itself becomes contraband?
LaMarr W. Knox is a father, grandfather and crochet artist born in New York and raised in Southern California. He is serving a 62-and-a-half year sentence at Shawagunk Correctional Facility in Ulster, New York.
Author: Kayitsi.com
