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jdagostino@observertoday.com Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday, visits to all state incarceration facilities will be suspended until further notice. That is the word from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision via its website this week. Since the middle of December, coronavirus cases for those incarcerated have increased. At the Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility in Brocton and the Gowanda Correctional Facility, through the most recent data available from Dec. 24, there are 20 and 30 known positive cases, respectively, with an increasing number of pending test resu...

jdagostino@observertoday.com Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday, visits to all state incarceration facilities will be suspended until further notice. That is the word from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision via its website this week. Since the middle of December, coronavirus cases for those incarcerated have increased. At the Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility in Brocton and the Gowanda Correctional Facility, through the most recent data available from Dec. 24, there are 20 and 30 known positive cases, respectively, with an increasing number of pending test resu...

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Dec 23, 2020 Gowanda Mayor David Smith summed it up as well as he could. The planned closing of the Gowanda Correctional Facility is “terrible news” to this region. “To get news right before the holidays that a March 31 closing is imminent is a huge piece of bad news for this community that has worked hard to fight through this pandemic and so much more,” he said. For a region that has had its share of pain, which includes serious issues of horrible flooding that forever closed a hospital to minor bickering on the school board, this is one more wound. Many communities that have stron...

OBSERVER Photo by Anthony Dolce Assemblyman Joseph Giglio speaks during Tuesday's event. GOWANDA — On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office announced the impending closure of three correctional facilities in New York state, including one in Gowanda. On Tuesday, state officials gathered outside the Gowanda Correctional Facility to question the decision of the March 31 closure. “To do this at this time of year, to all of these families and businesses is just terrible,” said State Sen. Patrick Gallivan, R-Elma. “We are calling on the governor to reverse this decision.” The sentiment fro...