By JOE LoTEMPLIO Editor in Chief Dec 17, 2020
Dec 17, 2020
With the number of COVID-19 cases rising in state prisons, the state has suspended visitation at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and Bare Hill Correctional Facility in Malone. âI would have liked to have seen it done sooner, and I would recommend that it be done at other facilities as well,â State Assemblyman D. Billy Jones said of the move. P-R FILE PHOTO
PLATTSBURGH â With the number of COVID-19 cases rising in state prisons, the state has suspended visitation at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and Bare Hill Correctional Facility in Malone.
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Legal Aid Society sues New York to obtain COVID testing details from prisons
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ALBANY The Legal Aid Society filed a petition in state Supreme Court Thursday that seeks a court order compelling the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to release details on correction officers who have been tested for COVID-19, and the number who tested positive at each prison facility.
DOCCS had denied the facility-level information, claiming the release of those details could endanger prison employees. It does not attempt to explain how disclosure of facility-level data about staff infections could endanger anyone when that data does not reveal any officer’s identity, assignment, or posting within a facility and does not reveal any sensitive operations within a facility, the Legal Aid Society wrote in the petition.
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COXSACKIE â The New York State Correctional Officer and Police Benevolent Association is calling for a lockdown at Greene Correctional Facility, citing an uptick in contraband.
Security measures at the state prison have been lax during the pandemic, NYSCOPBA Mid-Hudson Vice President Chris Moreau said.
In November, seven cellphones and 17 makeshift weapons including weapons of the ice pick variety and two Sawzall blades were recovered.
Corrections officers also found synthetic marijuana, homemade alcohol and vials of septocaine, a local anesthetic often used in dental procedures.
âWith the pandemic, the frisking, the security aspects have become a little more lax as we try to keep distance between staff and inmates,â Moreau said. âUnfortunately, that comes at the detriment of security. Itâs become quite apparent the facility is absolutely littered with contraband.â