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About New York- When Cell Doors Won?t Close

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"It?s not that the prisons are overstaffed, it?s just that they?re under-prisonered." About New York When Cell Doors Won?t Close By JIM DWYER Published: February 16, 2010 As of Tuesday afternoon, New York State had about 5,000 empty beds in its 67 prisons. Even if the state weren?t flat broke, this would be an expensive proposition. Just turning on the lights in the morning costs money. Correction officers must be on duty 24 hours a day, year round, even when there are only a handful of inmates to watch. Take, for example, three prisons in the northern reaches of the state, near the Canadian border. In a count taken Dec. 31, a prison in Lyon Mountain had 91 employees and 135 inmates. The Ogdensburg Correctional Facility had 287 employees and 474 inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).