State legislators are asking New York to reconsider the plan to close Great Meadow Correctional Facility.
The Department of Corrections told the prison’s approximately 650 employees last Thursday morning.
State Senators Dan Stec and Jake Ashby and Assemblyman Matt Simpson have sent a letter to Corrections asking they reconsider, saying the closing will “further damage an already economically fragile region to undermining the safety of officers, staff and inmates…”