New York to shut down three state prisons - New York Daily News nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
GOWANDA â Nearly 50 corrections officers stood behind state and local lawmakers at a press conference in front of the Gowanda Correctional Facility Tuesday, a day after it was announced the medium security prison would close.
Four days before Christmas, more than 510 corrections officers and another 130 civilian employees at the stateâs second-largest prison with more than 2,300 beds learned the facility would close March 31.
Two other prisons are slated for closure, the Watertown Correctional Facility and Clinton Annex at Dannemora. Around 400 more corrections officers at the two facilities are scheduled to lose their jobs.
Now is not the time to close the prison, located in southern Erie County, just north of Gowanda on Route 62, said state Sen. Patrick Galavin, who represents the 59th Senate District, which includes the prison.
Cuomo administration to shut 3 upstate prisons lockportjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lockportjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
GOWANDA â Assemblyman Joseph Giglio, the ranking minority member of the Assembly Committee on Corrections, was critical of the governorsâs plan to close three Upstate prisons â including the Gowanda Correctional Facility.
Gov. Andrew Cuomoâs administration will close the Gowanda facility, the Clinton Correctional Facility Annex in Dannemora and the Watertown Correctional Facility by March 30 as the stateâs fiscal crisis deepens and the population of inmates wanes.
More than 900 members of the New York State Corrections Officers Police Benevolent Association, the union for corrections officers, will be displaced, said Michael Powers, the NYSCOPBA president.
Giglio, R-Gowanda, called the news the âgovernorâs attempts to systematically dismantle the corrections system in New York state, which he has done since day one.â
Clinton Correctional Facility Annex slated for closure pressrepublican.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressrepublican.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.