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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...

More state prisons to close COXSACKIE — The majority of the construction at the new Greene County Jail is expected to wrap up next month, as three more state prisons bite the dust. Gowanda Correctional Facility, Watertown Correctional Facility and the Annex at Clinton Correctional Facility will close by March 30 — an estimated savings of $89 million, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Clinton Annex is an extension of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, where convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped through a steam ...

PUBLISHED 4:36 PM ET Dec. 21, 2020 PUBLISHED 4:36 PM EST Dec. 21, 2020 SHARE New York state officials on Monday moved to close three prisons in upstate New York, citing a declining prison population and the cost savings of about $89 million.  The state Department of Corrections and Commnunity Supervision is moving to shutter the Watertown Correctional Facility, the Gowanda Correctional Facility and the Clinton Annex in the latest round of prison closures in New York. The move is angering state lawmakers who represent the area as well as...

Owner Tim Boyd at Hidden Valley in 1982. Sam Leone photo. TUESDAY 26 DEC 00 - Colder than normal temperatures and earlier snowfalls combined for an early start to the skiing season at Hidden Valley Golf and Ski Resort. PHOTO BY ROBERT COHEN/PD WEDNESDAY 8 JANUARY 2003 - A sudden dose of Spring moved through the St. Louis metropolitan area, allowing Rudy Ryback of University City to go sleeveless as he went snowboarding at Hidden Valley Ski Resort in Eureka. Ryback pulled the appropriate clothing from his closet as he is a lifeguard in the summertime. PHOTO BY ROBERT COHEN/PD FRIDAY, JANUARY 9...

COVID infections rise among area prison workers COVID-19 in prisons By Lexi Bruening | December 15, 2020 at 6:10 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 6:46 AM TOWN OF WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - There’s a rise in COVID-19 cases in north country prisons, but they aren’t coming from behind bars. It’s the staff that has come down with the virus. “It’s very concerning. I have a genuine concern for each and every one of our members,” said Michael Powers, New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association president. “Our staffing gets to be an issu...