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NY: Republicans resist prison closing &NYC Democrates oppose closing of prison in NYC

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

As Republicans Resist Closing Prisons, Cuomo Is Said to Scale Back Plan By DANNY HAKIM and THOMAS KAPLAN Published: January 28, 2011 NY Times ALBANY ? Nearly a month ago, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made a call to close some prisons an emotional capstone of his first annual address to the Legislature, vowing, to sustained applause from fellow Democrats, that underused prisons would no longer be ?an employment program? for upstate New York. The issue has long prompted resentment, particularly for families of New York City residents who are shipped hours north of the city to be incarcerated, to places like the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, which is perched in the northern Adirondacks. But now Mr. Cuomo appears to be, at least partly, in retreat...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 29, 2011 (boomark / email).