Mediations are set to begin on Monday between the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the union representing the state's corrections officers. Those negotiations come after DOCCS announced that they will be docking two days of pay for every day that corrections officers remain off the job while scheduled to work.

Correctional officers complain of unsafe conditions, but critics say the protests were meant to deflect attention from ‘a moment of reckoning.’

As the New York State corrections officers strike continues​, both sides are set to meet with a mediator on Monday.