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| Report questions jail expansions |
| By North County Gazette |
| Published: 05/21/2007 |
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NEW YORK—A report recently released by the Center for Constitutional Rights on the expansion of jails in upstate and suburban New York finds that the recent increase in jail expansion is most often driven by the wishes of a little-known state agency – the State Commission of Corrections – rather than the needs and wishes of local municipalities. Former Warren County Sheriff Frederick C. Lamy of Warrensburg is one of the three members of the commission which are appointed to statutory terms with the advice and consent of the New York Senate. One commissioner, Daniel L. Stewart, former mayor of Plattsburgh, serves as chair and chief executive officer while the two others, Lamy and former Assemblywoman Frances T. Sullivan, serve as respective chairs of the Medical Review Board (Lamy) and the Citizen’s Police and Complaint Review Council which investigates inmate complaints and grievances. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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