What happens to fire & police training facilities on now-closed prison property?
WWNY What happens to fire & police training facilities on now-closed prison property? By John Pirsos | April 5, 2021 at 4:29 PM EDT - Updated April 5 at 8:44 PM
TOWN OF WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - The now-closed Watertown Correctional Facility not only housed inmates and employed hundreds of workers, its property also had training facilities for local police officers and firefighters. So, what happens to the training?
The state owns around 90 acres of land off Swan Road in the town of Watertown. The state prison sits on a big part of it, but some of that land is where local firefighters and police officers get crucial training
State officially closes Watertown Correctional Facility
WWNY State officially closes Watertown Correctional Facility By Brendan Straub | March 31, 2021 at 5:02 PM EDT - Updated March 31 at 9:17 PM
TOWN OF WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - Itâs a decision that many in the north country opposed, but the state has officially closed the Watertown Correctional Facility.
Name plates have been stripped, flags have been removed, and what once was a packed parking lot is mostly empty.
The Department of Corrections officially shut down the Watertown Correctional Facility on Wednesday.
âItâs become a difficult day and, you know, here we are at the end of March with a new state budget looming that the governor is calling for additional closures,â said NYSCOPBA (New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association) President Mike Powers.
USA Today Network The Gowanda Correctional Facility in Cattaraugus County, seen on Feb. 2, will close at the end of March.
(Provided photo â (Rochester) Democrat & Chronicle) The Clinton Annex prison in Dannemora, seen in June 2015, will close at the end of March.
(Enterprise photo â Tom Salitsky)
The Clinton Annex prison in Dannemora, seen in June 2015, will close at the end of March.
(Enterprise photo â Tom Salitsky) Four days before Christmas last year, Jamie Richmond learned the prison in Watertown near her home would be closing. Richmond and her husband own Carson’s Pizzeria and Bar in Adams Center, a small hamlet about 10 miles south of Watertown. Prison employees are a huge part of their regular customer base.
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One of the entrances at Livingston Correctional Facility in Sonyea. The medium-security prison opened in 1991 and closed in 2019. Photo: Democrat & Chronicle
Four days before Christmas last year, Jamie Richmond learned the prison in Watertown near her home would be closing. Richmond and her husband own Carson s Pizzeria and Bar in Adams Center, a small hamlet about 10 miles south of Watertown. Prison employees are a huge part of their regular customer base.
And sure, she said, the closure will affect their business. But it affects her family, too, because her two brothers work at the prison as well.
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