{"id":344397,"date":"2026-09-11T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:14:08","slug":"new-york-senator-rebukes-plan-for-new-corrections-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344397\/","title":{"rendered":"New York senator rebukes plan for new corrections facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York State Senator Dan Stec is criticizing the state Office of General Services after it solicited letters of interest for the design and construction of a new correctional facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of General Services and the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision are jointly <a href=\"https:\/\/online2.ogs.ny.gov\/dnc\/contractorConsultant\/esb\/ESBConsultantOps.ASP?Project=SG439&amp;OppType=1\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seeking architectural and engineering firms<\/a> \u201cto examine the need, feasibility, and operational implications of a new, estimated 3,000+ bed correctional facility&#8230;at a location to be determined within the State of New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan Stec, who represents the 45th Senate District in northern New York, notes that a number of correctional facilities have been closed in recent years. He says staffing issues must be addressed and \u201cInstead of constructing a costly new facility, reopen the recently shuttered facilities that are in good condition and should never have been closed to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Senator Dan Stec is criticizing the state Office of General Services after it solicited letters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-344397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344397","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=344397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}