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NY Tries To Downsize DOC By Selling Upstate Prison
By northcountrypublicradio.org
Published: 01/10/2011

Yesterday we heard that Governor Andrew Cuomo is talking again about downsizing the state’s prison industry.

The North Country has eighteen state correctional facilities, which provide thousands of high-paying jobs.

Local leaders say finding new uses for mothballed prisons will be difficult.

The state has struggled for nearly two years to sell the Camp Gabriels prison, which closed in 2009.

As Brian Mann reports, prisons inside the Adirondack Park are tangled up in legal questions involving the state constitution and the APA’s zoning rules.

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