The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where corrections officers have walked off the job over working conditions.

An inmate at a New York State prison has died on Saturday according to the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Services.

A correction officer is silhouetted in the front door of the Auburn Correctional Facility during the second day of the strike to protest unsafe working conditions. Auburn joins a growing list of prisons across the state where correction officers are on strike.

As New York correction officers continue their strike, state lawmakers remain split over prison staffing reforms and the controversial HALT Act, which limits solitary confinement. While some legislators signal willingness to address staffing and retirement concerns, deep divisions persist on whether to repeal or amend HALT.

Suse Lowenstein’s son was killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. An artist, she responded by creating a huge sculptural installation, Dark Elegy, depicting the raw emotion women felt the day they learned their loved ones died.