{"id":146955,"date":"2026-02-27T03:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:02:12","slug":"n-y-amendment-would-address-prisons-on-forest-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146955\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. amendment would address prisons on forest preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul is urging passage of a constitutional amendment that would make it easier to address three closed prison facilities on forest preserve land.<\/p>\n<p>Two prisons are within the Blue Line of the Adirondack Park; the third prison is in Saratoga County on Forest Preserve land.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Braymer, executive director of Protect the Adirondacks, told Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter that her organization supports the amendment with some tweaks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul is urging passage of a constitutional amendment that would make it easier to address three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,3242,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,201,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-146955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","12":"tag-capital-tonight","13":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","14":"tag-environment","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-news","18":"tag-new-york-state","19":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","20":"tag-new-york-state-news","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-susan-arbetter","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146955","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=146955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}