Patrick Galavin News Today

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...