USA Today Network The Gowanda Correctional Facility in Cattaraugus County, seen on Feb. 2, will close at the end of March.
(Provided photo â (Rochester) Democrat & Chronicle) The Clinton Annex prison in Dannemora, seen in June 2015, will close at the end of March.
(Enterprise photo â Tom Salitsky)
The Clinton Annex prison in Dannemora, seen in June 2015, will close at the end of March.
(Enterprise photo â Tom Salitsky) Four days before Christmas last year, Jamie Richmond learned the prison in Watertown near her home would be closing. Richmond and her husband own Carson’s Pizzeria and Bar in Adams Center, a small hamlet about 10 miles south of Watertown. Prison employees are a huge part of their regular customer base.
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One of the entrances at Livingston Correctional Facility in Sonyea. The medium-security prison opened in 1991 and closed in 2019. Photo: Democrat & Chronicle
Four days before Christmas last year, Jamie Richmond learned the prison in Watertown near her home would be closing. Richmond and her husband own Carson s Pizzeria and Bar in Adams Center, a small hamlet about 10 miles south of Watertown. Prison employees are a huge part of their regular customer base.
And sure, she said, the closure will affect their business. But it affects her family, too, because her two brothers work at the prison as well.