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NY is closing 6 prisons Thursday. What will it mean for local economies?
Poughkeepsie Journal www.yahoo.com ^ | 3/9/2022 | Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, New York State Team

Posted on 03/17/2022 12:36:18 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

Correctional facilities in Rochester, Fishkill and Southport are among six New York prisons shuttering Thursday, amid diminishing prison populations and the implementation of key reforms aimed at curbing incarceration.

At the close of business Thursday, Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill and the Rochester Correctional Facility will be two of six that will close, adding to the 18 prisons that the state has already closed since October 2011. The Department of Correction and Community Supervision operates 50 facilities as of March 1.

People incarcerated at the prison have been moved to other facilities based on their security classification along with their medical and mental health needs, officials said. Others will complete their sentences and be released or granted parole.

The six maximum-, minimum- and medium-security prisons that will shut down this week, state officials said, had already been under capacity and were “no longer necessary” given declines in the incarcerated population. Still, some community leaders outside the wall of the prisons remain concerned about how closing the prison will affect the local economy.

Downstate Correctional: What's happening to inmates, staff as closure arrives

November: NY state prisons in Fishkill, Rochester among six slated to close

In March, there were roughly 30,000 people incarcerated at New York prisons, a sharp decline from the high of nearly 73,000 in 1999, DOCCS said in a monthly report.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; crime; defundthepolice; dystopia; ericadams; fishkill; newyork; newyorkcity; ny; prison; prisons; rochester; southport
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1 posted on 03/17/2022 12:36:18 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Means more crime.....


2 posted on 03/17/2022 12:36:54 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: RomanSoldier19

We no longer punish criminals, which of course is why we are experiencing a spike in all types of crime.


3 posted on 03/17/2022 12:38:02 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: RomanSoldier19

Next the former “guests” of these prisons will be given automatic voter registrations..


4 posted on 03/17/2022 12:38:17 PM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: RomanSoldier19

Should be building a few more not closing them.


5 posted on 03/17/2022 12:38:54 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Richard Pryor, after having toured a prison and doing a show: THANK GOD WE HAVE PRISONS!...........


6 posted on 03/17/2022 12:42:11 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I wonder if those criminals started targeting government employees and their families if they might reconsider not sending hardened criminals to prison. Not the country club prisons of today but the old time ones that demanded hard labor for convicts.


7 posted on 03/17/2022 12:45:29 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: Red Badger

“I said, ‘Why’d you kill everybody in the house???’
“’They was home.’”


8 posted on 03/17/2022 12:49:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Shady

Next the former “guests” of these prisons will be given automatic voter registrations..


Exactly!

And, they’ll vote Dim, of course.


9 posted on 03/17/2022 12:49:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: mikelets456
more crime everywhere and now they'll have bail "reform"....

protect yourself...

10 posted on 03/17/2022 12:52:43 PM PDT by cherry (;)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Use them for mentally ill evaluations. Homeless.


11 posted on 03/17/2022 12:52:47 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yep!.....................


12 posted on 03/17/2022 12:53:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: RomanSoldier19

This will end well. Everything is fine. /s


13 posted on 03/17/2022 12:53:04 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Of course, these facilities can be quickly repurposed to house “insurrectionists” when the time comes, “Insurrection” and “hate crimes” being the only categories of crime the deep state recognizes as increasing.


14 posted on 03/17/2022 12:58:00 PM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: Jane Long

One of the prisons closing is Southport. BAD Super-Max Prison... Yay Hochul. They are coming to live with you at the “mansion!”


15 posted on 03/17/2022 1:05:16 PM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: RomanSoldier19

“NY is closing 6 prisons Thursday. What will it mean for local economies?”

More potential employees?


16 posted on 03/17/2022 1:05:24 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: antidemoncrat

I wonder if those criminals started targeting government employees and their families


For your answer, take a look at how those who wandered through Congress on January 6 are being treated.


17 posted on 03/17/2022 1:09:54 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: mikelets456

Means more crime.....

**************

And more people escaping NY.


18 posted on 03/17/2022 1:14:28 PM PDT by Starboard
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This is what happens when states approach insolvency. New York State cannot afford a judicial system.

On a related note, 23 states have Constitutional Carry and 3 more have pending legislation.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/14/ohio-becomes-23rd-constitutional-carry-state/

19 posted on 03/17/2022 1:32:22 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: RomanSoldier19

Send ‘em all to Chappaqua.


20 posted on 03/17/2022 2:04:18 PM PDT by simpson96
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