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NY: Guards launch advertising campaign against the closure of four prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Corrections officers fighting proposed closure of four prisons over two years By Cara Matthews ?Albany Bureau ? February 10, 2010 Ithaca Journal ALBANY - The state Correctional Officers Union on Wednesday announced an advertising campaign against Gov. David Paterson's budget proposals to close four prisons, including Butler Correctional Facility in Wayne County and three in the North Country. Paterson is calling for the closures as the inmate population continues to decline. The reduction is 1,100 prisoners in the current fiscal year, which ends March 31, and there is a projected decrease of another 1,000 in the next fiscal year. That would bring the total to 57,600 inmates. Correction officers said it would be unwise to close the prisons because they are understaffed and overcrowded...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).