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A high-powered law firm hired by the Hochul administration to conduct a comprehensive review of the state’s troubled prison system will be paid up to $9.3 million — but its report that was expected by the end of summer won’t be ready until at least the end of the year, THE CITY has learned.

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision tapped WilmerHale last year to conduct a “top-to-bottom” review following the deaths of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi, two incarcerated men killed by officers inside state prisons four months apart.

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