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Clinton Correctional Facility

Albany, NY
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11 Prison Staff Hospitalized After Illness, Days After Similar Case At Another NY Facility 11 Prison Staff Hospitalized After Illness, Days After Similar Case At Another NY Facility
11 Prison Staff Hospitalized After Illness, Days After Similar Case At Another NY Facility Eleven staff members at an upstate New York prison were hospitalized after suddenly falling ill, just days after a similar mass exposure at another state facility. The incident happened Friday, Aug. 8, in Franklin County at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, according to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). A corrections officer began feeling sick while inside a cell with a maintenance worker. The officer was taken to the prison’s medical unit, where others who came into contact with them also reported symptoms, DOCCS spokesperson Thomas Mailey told Daily V…

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by Michael Mashburn
Albany, NY
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Solar Eclipse: NY Prisons Will Be Locked Down During Celestial Spectacle Solar Eclipse: NY Prisons Will Be Locked Down During Celestial Spectacle
Solar Eclipse: NY Prisons Will Be Locked Down During Celestial Spectacle Among those eagerly anticipating next week’s total solar eclipse are New York’s prison inmates, but not all of them will catch the celestial spectacle. Twenty-three state prisons fall directly within the “path of totality,” meaning they will experience up to three and a half minutes of total darkness during the “Great Northern American Eclipse” on Monday afternoon, April 8. Out of precaution, all 23 of those correctional facilities will be locked down and operate on a holiday schedule, Thomas Mailey, a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) told Dai…

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by Michael Mashburn
Port Chester, NY
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Port Chester Street Closed For Ben Stiller's 'Escape At Dannemora' Showtime Port Chester Street Closed For Ben Stiller's 'Escape At Dannemora' Showtime
Port Chester Street Closed For Ben Stiller's 'Escape At Dannemora' Showtime This story has been updated. A street in Westchester will be shut down overnight to shoot part of a Showtime television series on the infamous 2015 New York prison break. Willet Avenue in Port Chester will b closed from North Main Street to Broad Street at Summerfield Park area from 4:30 p.m. Thursday until 7 a.m. on Friday to film scenes from Ben Stiller's "Escape At  Dannemora," about the escape by two murderers who were romantically involved with a prison guard at Clinton Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. Stiller lives in Chappaqua.  Joyce Mitchell, the prison seamst…

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by Jon Craig