{"id":120834,"date":"2026-02-03T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:30:13","slug":"governors-budget-proposal-excludes-further-prison-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120834\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor\u2019s budget proposal excludes further prison closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; The governor\u2019s budget proposal does not include language allowing for additional state prison closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For the past several years, language in the governor\u2019s budget proposals has given the executive office the ability to close state prisons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watertown Correctional was selected for closure under Governor Andrew Cuomo and closed in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Under Governor Kathy Hochul, Ogdensburg Correctional closed in 2022. Bare Hill Correctional is set to close next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, 7News has learned that under the current budget proposal, the governor is not looking for any further prison closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; The governor\u2019s budget proposal does not include language allowing for additional state prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52995,862,1984,426,9,11,10,49,51,50,14965,25131,3904],"class_list":["post-120834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-budget-proposal","tag-governor","tag-hochul","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-nys","tag-prison-closure","tag-wwny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}