Jory Smith was supposed to be free. His sentence had been up for five days on August 28, 2020, when officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in upstate
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When the New York state corrections department has tried to use evidence of violence to fire guards, it has failed 90% of the time, an investigation has found.