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Kathy Hochul: “We've brought in the National Guard to make sure that we're…”

Featuring: Kathy Hochul, Democratic | Governor of New York

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Governor's Address on New York City Leadership and Federal Interference

Published | Video Starts at 22:45

I praise them for showing up and doing their jobs, I truly do. These are tough, tough jobs, but also the incarcerated individual population, as well as administrators. My job is to protect them. So. So We've brought in the National Guard to make sure that we're not short staffed. We also have more being deployed, if necessary, started mediation as well, to talk about their concerns and how we can deal with the fact that there is a severe shortage of people who want to be corrections officers in our state. (22:45–22:49)

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Asserts that the National Guard has been deployed to address staffing shortages.

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