3 Upstate NY prisons to close in early 2021; nearly 1,000 jobs affected
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
FILE - In this June 15, 2015, file photo, corrections officers walk next to a fence covered in razor wire as they leave work at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File
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Three prisons in Upstate New York will close in early 2021, the state announced Monday.
The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said the Gowanda and Watertown correctional facilities, both medium-security prisons, and the Clinton Annex, which is part of the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, will close in the coming weeks. Inmates will be moved the state’s other 49 correctional facilities and nearly 1,000 jobs will be affected.
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