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Mar 11, 2022 · In 2021, the state legislature passed the bill and the governor signed it into law. It is scheduled to take effect at the end of March 2022. Last November, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that her administration would close Southport, along with five other state prisons, on March 10, 2022.
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Mar 10, 2022 · ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – The Southport Correctional Facility officially closed its doors Thursday afternoon, forcing hundreds of inmates and staff to relocate to various prisons across New York...
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Nov 18, 2021 · BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG)—The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) announced last week that it will close six prisons statewide, including the Southport Correctional Facility near Elmira.
Nov 8, 2021 · The facility is one of six New York state prisons that will close on March 10, 2022, in a move that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says will save the...
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Sep 4, 2024 · More than two years after New York state closed the Southport Correctional Facility along with other prisons, Chemung County is looking for ways to redevelop the 408-acre site.
Nov 8, 2021 · Southport Correctional Facility, a maximum-security institution in Chemung County, and the Willard Drug Treatment Campus, a medium-security institution in Seneca County, are among those that will...
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Mar 9, 2022 · 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...