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NY: 2 of 4 prisons recommended for closure to stay open to protect upstate Democrats

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Aubertine: No closure for Moriah, Ogdensburg Friday, June 18, 2010 The budget bills set to be debated and voted on today will preserve the imperiled Ogdensburg Correctional and Moriah Shock Incarceration facilities ? salvation announced by upstate Democratic Sen. Darrel Aubertine, who was put on the spot by the threats to the upstate operations. The possible closures were significant not only for CO unions, but for two communities already hard hit by the structural problems afflicting the upstate economy. Here?s Aubertine?s press release: State Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine today announced that an agreement has been reached for budget language that provides for the full and continued operation of Ogdensburg Correctional Facility and Moriah Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).