By Nick Reisman
LoHud.com
New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association President Donn Rowe today warned in his testimony before a joint legislative budget committee that the state could face a “catastrophe” if Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s prison closure plan moves forward.
“If enacted, these closures will represent a clear and present danger to our prison system and the men and women who serve in it,” Rowe said in his prepared remarks. “It is essential that everyone who has a vote in this decision understand the ramifications and the impact this may have on thousands of lives across New York, as well as the future of our State’s prison system.”
The union worries that an increase in dangerous “double-bunking” of inmates and a growth in dangerous prisoners has made the state’s prison facilities all the more crowded and necessary.
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