Posted on 03/17/2022 12:36:18 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Correctional facilities in Rochester, Fishkill and Southport are among six New York prisons shuttering Thursday, amid diminishing prison populations and the implementation of key reforms aimed at curbing incarceration.
At the close of business Thursday, Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill and the Rochester Correctional Facility will be two of six that will close, adding to the 18 prisons that the state has already closed since October 2011. The Department of Correction and Community Supervision operates 50 facilities as of March 1.
People incarcerated at the prison have been moved to other facilities based on their security classification along with their medical and mental health needs, officials said. Others will complete their sentences and be released or granted parole.
The six maximum-, minimum- and medium-security prisons that will shut down this week, state officials said, had already been under capacity and were “no longer necessary” given declines in the incarcerated population. Still, some community leaders outside the wall of the prisons remain concerned about how closing the prison will affect the local economy.
Downstate Correctional: What's happening to inmates, staff as closure arrives
November: NY state prisons in Fishkill, Rochester among six slated to close
In March, there were roughly 30,000 people incarcerated at New York prisons, a sharp decline from the high of nearly 73,000 in 1999, DOCCS said in a monthly report.
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Means more crime.....
We no longer punish criminals, which of course is why we are experiencing a spike in all types of crime.
Next the former “guests” of these prisons will be given automatic voter registrations..
Should be building a few more not closing them.
Richard Pryor, after having toured a prison and doing a show: THANK GOD WE HAVE PRISONS!...........
I wonder if those criminals started targeting government employees and their families if they might reconsider not sending hardened criminals to prison. Not the country club prisons of today but the old time ones that demanded hard labor for convicts.
“I said, ‘Why’d you kill everybody in the house???’
“’They was home.’”
Next the former “guests” of these prisons will be given automatic voter registrations..
Exactly!
And, they’ll vote Dim, of course.
protect yourself...
Use them for mentally ill evaluations. Homeless.
Yep!.....................
This will end well. Everything is fine. /s
Of course, these facilities can be quickly repurposed to house “insurrectionists” when the time comes, “Insurrection” and “hate crimes” being the only categories of crime the deep state recognizes as increasing.
One of the prisons closing is Southport. BAD Super-Max Prison... Yay Hochul. They are coming to live with you at the “mansion!”
“NY is closing 6 prisons Thursday. What will it mean for local economies?”
More potential employees?
I wonder if those criminals started targeting government employees and their families
Means more crime.....
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And more people escaping NY.
On a related note, 23 states have Constitutional Carry and 3 more have pending legislation.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/14/ohio-becomes-23rd-constitutional-carry-state/
Send ‘em all to Chappaqua.
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