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GOSHEN - Elected officials and union leaders on Thursday protested the state s plan to close a youth detention center that has housed and rehabilitated young criminal offenders for 60 years. Standing outside the Goshen Secure Center, state Sens. Mike Martucci and James Skoufis and Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus argued the cost-cutting move in Gov. Andrew Cuomo s proposed budget would lose employees their jobs in uncertain times and force offenders to places farther upstate, too far from the families they need for support. I promise you, it s not going to go down without a fight, said Martucci, a Wawayanda Republican. The Goshen center is one of three youth detention sites in the Hudson Valley and four statewide that Cuomo proposed to close in his budget in January to save $22 million a year. The Office of Children and Family Services, which operates 12 such facilities, says the number of incarcerated youths in New York has plunged by 73 percent since 2010.

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