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State to stop using disciplinary housing units in 9 correctional facilities
September 17, 2002, 5:48 PM EDT
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The state will stop using the disciplinary housing units in nine correctional facilities across New York, a corrections spokesman said Tuesday.
The units _ containing a total of 124 beds _ will go "off-line" on Oct. 14 in compliance with the 2002-03 state budget, said James Flateau, spokesman for the state Department of Correctional Services.
"We have several prisons around the state that have very small, old, run-down or cost-ineffective disciplinary housing units, and what we're going to do is take them out of service," Flateau said. He said several of the units would need extensive renovation for continued use.
The majority of the inmates currently in disciplinary housing will be eligible to return to the general prison population by Oct. 14, Flateau said.
The units at the nine facilities will still be available in case of emergency and can be used for housing inmates who are awaiting transfer to another facility's disciplinary housing unit.
"The unit won't be operating anymore but it's not being closed," Flateau said. "It's being taken off-line."
Seven of the nine prisons where the units will stop being used will have inmates transferred to nearby facilities for disciplinary housing.
The seven are Adirondack Correctional Facility in Ray Brook; Altona Correctional Facility; Groveland Correctional Facility; Mid-Orange Correctional Facility in Warwick; Mount McGregor Correctional Facility in Wilton; Odgensburg Correctional Facility and Otisville Correctional Facility.
Two prisons _ Collins Correctional Facility and Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy _ have already closed their old disciplinary housing units and have transferred inmates to new 200-bed units within each facility.
The average number of beds filled in the disciplinary housing units at the nine facilities in 2000-01 was 97, according to Flateau. He said there are currently 5,432 disciplinary beds in the state's correctional system, with approximately 500 unoccupied.
A total of 76 corrections officers work at the nine disciplinary housing units. Flateau said none will be laid off and their positions will be eliminated through attrition.
Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press
September 17, 2002, 5:48 PM EDT
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The state will stop using the disciplinary housing units in nine correctional facilities across New York, a corrections spokesman said Tuesday.
The units _ containing a total of 124 beds _ will go "off-line" on Oct. 14 in compliance with the 2002-03 state budget, said James Flateau, spokesman for the state Department of Correctional Services.
"We have several prisons around the state that have very small, old, run-down or cost-ineffective disciplinary housing units, and what we're going to do is take them out of service," Flateau said. He said several of the units would need extensive renovation for continued use.
The majority of the inmates currently in disciplinary housing will be eligible to return to the general prison population by Oct. 14, Flateau said.
The units at the nine facilities will still be available in case of emergency and can be used for housing inmates who are awaiting transfer to another facility's disciplinary housing unit.
"The unit won't be operating anymore but it's not being closed," Flateau said. "It's being taken off-line."
Seven of the nine prisons where the units will stop being used will have inmates transferred to nearby facilities for disciplinary housing.
The seven are Adirondack Correctional Facility in Ray Brook; Altona Correctional Facility; Groveland Correctional Facility; Mid-Orange Correctional Facility in Warwick; Mount McGregor Correctional Facility in Wilton; Odgensburg Correctional Facility and Otisville Correctional Facility.
Two prisons _ Collins Correctional Facility and Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy _ have already closed their old disciplinary housing units and have transferred inmates to new 200-bed units within each facility.
The average number of beds filled in the disciplinary housing units at the nine facilities in 2000-01 was 97, according to Flateau. He said there are currently 5,432 disciplinary beds in the state's correctional system, with approximately 500 unoccupied.
A total of 76 corrections officers work at the nine disciplinary housing units. Flateau said none will be laid off and their positions will be eliminated through attrition.
Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press