WATERTOWN â Thereâs no doubt that corrections personnel throughout the stateâs penal system confront an uphill battle in keeping contraband from reaching inmates.
Drugs and weapons continue to find their way into prisons. A news item published March 25 in the Watertown Daily Times reported the following about an incident at the Cape Vincent Correctional Facility:
âThe New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association said in a statement [March 24] that on March 9, an officer observed an inmate unsteady on his feet in the prisonâs recreation yard. The inmate was brought to the infirmary for evaluation where the inmate allegedly reached into his pant pockets and pulled out an unknown object, which he swallowed. According to the union, officers frisked the inmate and found two Suboxone strips [used to treat opioid addiction] in his possession. Medical staff determined the inmate was under the influence of drugs, the union said.
WATERTOWN â Thereâs no doubt that corrections personnel throughout the stateâs penal system confront an uphill battle in keeping contraband from reaching inmates.
Drugs and weapons continue to find their way into prisons. A news item published March 25 in the Watertown Daily Times reported the following about an incident at the Cape Vincent Correctional Facility:
âThe New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association said in a statement [March 24] that on March 9, an officer observed an inmate unsteady on his feet in the prisonâs recreation yard. The inmate was brought to the infirmary for evaluation where the inmate allegedly reached into his pant pockets and pulled out an unknown object, which he swallowed. According to the union, officers frisked the inmate and found two Suboxone strips [used to treat opioid addiction] in his possession. Medical staff determined the inmate was under the influence of drugs, the union said.
WATERTOWN â Jefferson County legislators Tuesday unanimously opposed the stateâs decision to close the Watertown Correctional Facility.
The county Board of Legislators voted to pass a resolution which argues the closure is inadvisable for a number of reasons, including that no local input was requested before the decision to close was made and that three other prisons closed in the region over the last decade have not found other uses, indicating the Watertown facility will likely fall into disuse.
Camp Gabriels in Franklin County closed in 2009, Lyon Mountain Correctional Facility in Dannemora, Clinton County, closed in 2011, and Chateaugay Correctional Facility in Franklin County closed in 2014. All three facilities have seen potential buyers, but no development since their closure.
Parole shocker: Officer accused of fudging records of visits to murderers, parolee later charged in killing
Updated Dec 09, 2020;
Posted Dec 09, 2020
The defendant falsely said he visited four parolees when he hadn t, and that they had completed programs which they didn t, allege prosecutors. Two of the parolees had served murder sentences, a third was later accused of killing an off-duty city firefighter in a road-rage incident in Brooklyn. (NJ Advance Media)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Prosecutors allege a former state parole officer submitted bogus visitation and program records for four parolees he was supervising on Staten Island, including two who served time for murders in Brooklyn and one other who was later accused of killing an off-duty firefighter in a road-rage incident in that borough.