correctional facility

If that’s not aggravating enough, every morning, when I’m lying down in my bunk here at Eastern Correctional Facility, a max prison located in Napanoch, New York, I’m forced to hear the same prisoner in a neighboring cell ask the same question to different corrections officers taking the list of our three-times-daily choice of activities.

Even before February’s illegal prison guard strike, which crippled New York State’s financial resources, causing Gov. Kathy Hochul to call in the National Guard and fire 2,000 wildcat strikers, prison administrators in my previous facility, the now-shuttered Sullivan Correctional Facility, were using the shortage of staff as justification to cancel both religious and family-day events.

And California City is facing a fiscal crisis, after among other things losing the state correctional facility.

For now, the brothers remain behind bars at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, their next shot at freedom again years away, no matter how brightly the spotlight outside shines.

Lyle Menendez spearheaded a beatification project at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, and his brother has organized artwork for the project.