Doron Tyler Antrim in The Daily Mail gives a prisoner in the Coxsackie Correctional Facility the rare chance to be heard, quoting a letter sent from the inmate at the large Greene County prison. "According to letters sent to The Daily Mail by several inmates, guards have meted out their own brand of justice against inmates, especially those who file complaints about alleged abuse," Antrim writes. He first mentions a report from the Correctional Association of New York, an advocacy group that surveyed almost a third of the population at the prison which found, “survey participants and inmates with whom we spoke repeatedly asserted that they were verbally harassed by staff and were retaliated against if they filed complaints about staff conduct.... Some reported physical abuse by staff and others asserted they received false misbehavior reports.” An inmate agreed, writing to The Daily Mail that, “nothing in [the Correctional Association’s] investigation was exaggerated.... The beatings, retaliation, false misbehavior reports aren’t a fabrication at all... It’s “standard operating procedure …'This is Coxsackie' is a saying that you would hear very often.” Antrim also reports, “According to [Department of Corrections and Community Supervision] records, since 2007, there has been only one instance of a Coxsackie security staff member who received a notice of discipline for excessive use of force,” agency spokesman Peter Cutler said. “In that case, an arbitrator found the employee not guilty and returned him to work.” The prison’s administration “didn’t really agree with our assessment,” said Jack Beck, director of the Correctional Association’s Prison Visiting Project. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.