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Corrections officers, families protest closure of 3 New York prisons The state recently decided to speed up the closure of the state prisons, including the Gowanda Correctional Facility. Author: WGRZ Staff, Rob Hackford (WGRZ) Published: 11:10 PM EST January 9, 2021 Updated: 6:48 AM EST January 10, 2021 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Corrections officers and their families gathered on Abbott Road to protest the states plans to speed up the closure of thre...

Editorial The news that the state plans to close prisons in Dannemora (the Clinton Annex, not the main Clinton Correctional Facility), Watertown and Gowanda is another shot in the gut to our region economically. It is absolutely understandable that employees at the facilities are upset. State officials have said staff at the three prison facilities will receive priority placement for transfers to other state prison facilities, but who wants to receive the news that they are either out of a job...

4:18 Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that the Watertown and Gowanda Correctional facilities and the Clinton Annex, a part of the Clinton Correctional Facility, will be closed by March 30st , 2021. Officials in the North Country are upset by the decision. According to a statement emailed to WAMC from Department of Corrections spokesperson Thomas Mailey, the agency reviewed operations at all 52 correctional facilities and identified the three for closure based on a number of factors including...

State officials stand outside the Gowanda Correctional Facility. GOWANDA – In the wake of Monday’s announcement by the Gov. Andrew Cuomo administration that Gowanda Correctional Facility is one of three state prisons scheduled for imminent closure, a contingent of state legislators, including Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt, joined with local officials and union representatives to denounce the cost-cutting move that will impact 600 employees. They noted that the decision will devastate em...

Closing the Gowanda Correctional Facility will have a devastating impact on the local economy, according to Gowanda Mayor David Smith. The medium security prison in the Town of Collins is one of three state prisons New York State is shuttering as a cost saving move. The two other state prisons being closed are the Watertown Correctional Facility and the Clinton Annex in Dannemora. All three are expected to be closed by March 30, according to a letter from the state Department of Corrections and...

GOWANDA — Nearly 50 corrections officers stood behind state and local lawmakers at a press conference in front of the Gowanda Correctional Facility Tuesday, a day after it was announced the medium security prison would close. Four days before Christmas, more than 510 corrections officers and another 130 civilian employees at the state’s second-largest prison with more than 2,300 beds learned the facility would close March 31. Two other prisons are slated for closure, the Watertown Cor...

GOWANDA — Assemblyman Joseph Giglio, the ranking minority member of the Assembly Committee on Corrections, was critical of the governors’s plan to close three Upstate prisons — including the Gowanda Correctional Facility. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration will close the Gowanda facility, the Clinton Correctional Facility Annex in Dannemora and the Watertown Correctional Facility by March 30 as the state’s fiscal crisis deepens and the population of inmates wanes. More ...