Sentences with phrase «new prison beds»

We argue that it's better to invest that $ 230,000 in the community, into services that help before someone commits a crime, rather than adding new prison beds or building new prisons.

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Inmates in Leicester prison are struggling to access basic necessities like toiletries, clean clothes and bedding but have easy access to legal highs, a damning new report has found.

A $ 23 million project will add 142 beds for teen offenders and an additional 11 staff positions will be created at Adirondack Correctional Facility, a medium security prison in northern New York.

In 2018, the state plans to close 1,200 solitary housing unit beds throughout New York State's prisons, in an effort to reduce the use of solitary confinement, he said.

Not surprisingly, the 23,000 - member state Correctional Officers Union is not responding well to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to «right - size» New York prison system, targeting some 3,500 minimum and medium security beds for elimination.

Skelos said his plan, to be presented to Cuomo on Wednesday, would reduce the number of prison beds by a little over 3,500 and involve closing five or six facilities, including one in New York City.

Also in the plan, 3,700 prison beds would be eliminated; $ 22 million would be restored to proposed cuts for prescriptions for the elderly; and New York City senior centers will be funded.

The New York State Department of Community and Correctional Supervision has claimed that as crime rates decline and inmate populations decrease, taxpayers can not afford to continue paying for empty prison beds.

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