COVID surge in SLC prisons is âterrifying,â says inmateâs wife
WWNY COVID surge in SLC prisons is âterrifying,â says inmateâs wife By Keith Benman | January 12, 2021 at 5:21 PM EST - Updated January 12 at 9:39 PM
GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (WWNY) - COVID-19 cases continue to surge at prisons in St. Lawrence County. Everyone is concerned. Some say itâs more like terrified.
The total of COVID-19 cases has doubled at Gouverneur Correctional Facility in the last two weeks. That has anyone there with loved ones wondering how much worse can it get?
âItâs just something very dark. Very dark. Something thatâs terrifying,â said Diana Escobar, Gouverneur inmateâs wife.
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 state s plans to speed up the closure of three state prisons, including the Gowanda Correctional Facility, in March.
The protest was held ahead of the Buffalo Bills Wild Card game against the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday afternoon in Orchard Park.
Mark DeBurgomaster, the Western Region Vice President of the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, spoke with 2 On Your Side about that decision.
GOUVERNEUR â Two north country correctional facilities that have managed to evade the novel coronavirus since its onset nearly a year ago have now confirmed cases among inmate populations.
According to updated figures released at 3 p.m. Monday by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Ogdensburg and Cape Vincent correctional facilities have each logged their first case of COVID-19 among inmates. Both facilities were some of the few in the state untouched by the virus until Monday. They both indicate one positive case each amongst inmate population with 17 tests pending for the Ogdensburg facility and 20 pending for Cape Vincent.
CAPE VINCENT â A âgreen leafy substanceâ believed to be drugs was seized last week at Cape Vincent Correctional Facility after a corrections officer intercepted the package, according to the correctional officersâ union.
A corrections officer at the facility was processing a package through an x-ray machine on Dec. 22, and noticed âunusual objectsâ inside three cans that were mailed to the north country medium security prison from downstate.
The suspected drugs were seized and taken for additional testing, according to a release from the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association. The three bundles weighed a combined 7.5 ounces.
According to the union, nearly 4,000 pieces of contraband have been seized at prisons across New York state this year, marking the fourth consecutive year the union has seized that much contraband.
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