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State and local officials, union leaders and employees are hoping to stop a state decision to close the Clinton Annex prison in Dannemora, New York. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley was at a rally Saturday as closure by the end of March looms.
In late December the Cuomo administration announced that the Watertown and Gowanda Correctional facilities and the Clinton Annex, part of the Clinton Correctional Facility, will be closed by March 30th.
On Saturday dozens of local officials, employees and union members gathered in Dannemora for a Save the Annex rally. Union officials say the Annex has operated for 122 years and NYSCOPBA Northern Region Vice President John Roberts says there’s no reason to close it now. “We’re very proud to support this local rally for the Clinton Annex. Three hundred jobs in this community is a lot of jobs to cut.”
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FILE - In this June 15, 2015, file photo, corrections officers walk next to a fence covered in razor wire as they leave work at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File
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Three prisons in Upstate New York will close in early 2021, the state announced Monday.
The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said the Gowanda and Watertown correctional facilities, both medium-security prisons, and the Clinton Annex, which is part of the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, will close in the coming weeks. Inmates will be moved the state’s other 49 correctional facilities and nearly 1,000 jobs will be affected.