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NY: Gov. Paterson marks for prisons for closing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Published December 16, 2008 04:39 pm - After winning efforts to keep the minimum-security prison open, workers and lawmakers look at a different fight this time. Paterson proposes closing Camp Gabriels By KIM SMITH DEDAM Staff Writer LAKE PLACID ? Four prisons, including Camp Gabriels, are marked for closure in Gov. David Paterson?s budget. And a new law included with it would shorten the prison-closure notice from one year to 90 days. The specter of lost or displaced jobs and evaporation of a huge source of local revenue has returned, a year after a Department of Correctional Services study recommended shuttering the minimum-security prison and three others. The earlier plan was halted by union workers? outcry and North Country lawmakers, who lobbied hard to keep the state jobs in place...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).