{"id":3692,"date":"2011-02-01T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2011-02-01T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T19:54:24","slug":"breaking-cuomo-wants-to-eliminate-3500-prison-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/02\/01\/breaking-cuomo-wants-to-eliminate-3500-prison-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING:  Cuomo wants to eliminate  3,500 prison beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>According to an advance copy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s new budget plan viewed by NCPR, New York state hopes to eliminate as many as 3,500 prison beds from the correctional system.<\/div>\n<div>In theory, that means eliminating about 10% of the total prison capacity\u00a0 in the state, which (these are very rough calculations) would add up closing to 5-7 correctional facilities.<\/div>\n<div>IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION:\u00a0 THE CUTS WOULD ACCOUNT FOR 10% OF THE STATE&#8217;S MINIMUM AND MEDIUM SECURITY FACILITIES.\u00a0 THIS PLAN WOULD APPARENTLY NOT AFFECT MAXIMUM SECURITY FACILITIES.<\/div>\n<div>The Cuomo administration hopes to achieve those cuts quickly, in time for the 2011-2012 budget year, and is pushign to eliminate the 12-month waiting period on prison cuts now in place.<\/div>\n<div>This from the state&#8217;s budget book:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>The closures will be undertaken after a task forcecreated by Executive Order makes recommendations regarding specific facilities to beclosed; and economic development assistance will be provided to communities where aclosure occurs.<\/div>\n<div>The Budget also proposes to eliminate the 12-month statutory\u00a0notification before closing a facility to allow closures as soon as practicable after thetask force has made its recommendations.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>According to Gov. Cuomo&#8217;s team, the change would save $72 million dollars next year.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an advance copy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s new budget plan viewed by NCPR, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5614,10,4862,20,4885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}