I have no objection to Newjack' s expression of its author's 'view of the world' or opinion. I would have none if it were written by any other employee, past or present. Likewise, I take no position on the validity of their claims and I leave it to them to seek whatever redress they deem appropriate. My issues are personal safety and system security. Commissioner Goord said the pages to be redacted deal with the statewide issues of deployment of chemical agents, use of pressure points and holds taught to Officers to control inmates, control of emergency equipment in the event of a potential staff hostage situations, descriptions of Officer actions and duties during a mass incident, escape procedures, the effective range and use of certain firearms and the local issue of descriptions of security issues in Sing Sing yards.
Redaction consists of literally cutting out of the book the affected pages.
That also dispatches non-offending passages on the obverse or reverse of the redacted page. The normal review process is to await the first inmate's reception of written material. It is then withheld until it has been considered by the Media Review Committee at the facility in which the inmate is housed. The first and so far only receipt of this book through the Sing Sing mail room occurred on June 5. Since then, the book has been held awaiting a decision.