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GOWANDA — Nearly 50 corrections officers stood behind state and local lawmakers at a press conference in front of the Gowanda Correctional Facility Tuesday, a day after it was announced the medium security prison would close. Four days before Christmas, more than 510 corrections officers and another 130 civilian employees at the state’s second-largest prison with more than 2,300 beds learned the facility would close March 31. Two other prisons are slated for closure, the Watertown Correctional Facility and Clinton Annex at Dannemora. Around 400 more corrections officers at the two f...

GOWANDA — Assemblyman Joseph Giglio, the ranking minority member of the Assembly Committee on Corrections, was critical of the governors’s plan to close three Upstate prisons — including the Gowanda Correctional Facility. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration will close the Gowanda facility, the Clinton Correctional Facility Annex in Dannemora and the Watertown Correctional Facility by March 30 as the state’s fiscal crisis deepens and the population of inmates wanes. More than 900 members of the New York State Corrections Officers Police Benevolent Association, the union...