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jdagostino@observertoday.com OBSERVER file photo Positive COVID-19 cases continue to rise for inmates at the Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility. Since the afternoon of Dec. 30, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has not allowed visitation across the state — including Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility in Brocton. This, however, has not slowed a recent COVID-19 surge among those being held in confinement. According to the most recent state numbers available through Friday, 49 inmates at the location have tested positive — all in the last...

Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility in Brocton. Since the afternoon of Dec. 30, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has not allowed visitation across the state — including Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility in Brocton. This, however, has not slowed a recent COVID-19 surge among those being held in confinement. According to the most recent state numbers available through Friday, 49 inmates at the location have tested positive — all in the last eight weeks. This has some in the north county community voicing concerns that a second cluster o...

WATERTOWN — A group met in Public Square on Saturday afternoon to protest the upcoming closure of Watertown Correctional Facility, which is scheduled to shut down at the end of March. The demonstrators displayed signs for the honking cars passing by and talked about what the closure means for the employees at the facility and their families. Among them was Watertown corrections officer Tom Dier. He will be traveling over the next few days to the homes of a few of his coworkers — who are in quarantine because they got COVID-19, apparently from the prison where they work — to pic...

3:46 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 officia...

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 ...