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

This comes as correctional officers across New York reached their fourth day of hitting the picket line. Officers are calling for better pay, they also want to see improved security and the rollback of prison reforms, including the HALT Act, which limits the use of solitary confinement.

The New York state prison system is teetering on disaster as guards have staged an unsanctioned wildcat strike at almost all of its 42 facilities. Governor Kathy Hochul has deployed the National Guard and, on Wednesday, obtained a court order mandating that corrections officers return to work.