Life and death in a New York prison
“I felt like the walls of my cell closing in on me, like a trash compactor.” | Sofiya Voznaya

Life and death in a New York prison

/ December 10

As New York prisons face a second wave of COVID-19 cases, one incarcerated person tells New York Focus they haven’t fixed the problems that led to the first.


As New York prisons face a second wave of COVID-19 cases, Dino Caroselli, a 64-year-old man incarcerated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, says they haven’t fixed the problems that led to the first.

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