{"id":346780,"date":"2026-09-14T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346780\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:40:13","slug":"new-york-pulls-back-proposal-for-new-state-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346780\/","title":{"rendered":"New York pulls back proposal for new state prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Corrections officials in New York are pulling back on a proposal for a new state prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In July, the Department of Corrections put out a request to study whether, and where, New York should build a new 3,000-bed state prison. But officials tell WCAX that plan is now sidelined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It comes amid ongoing staffing and safety issues inside New York prisons, and a number of closed-down, now-abandoned facilities across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State Senator Dan Stec, R-N.Y., 45th District, says he doesn\u2019t believe the state has the money for a new prison. \u201cTalk to the union leaders, talk to the rank and file members, they will tell you what needs to be done. But I am not sure that spending a billion dollars that the state of New York doesn\u2019t have to build a new prison when they have closed a dozen prisons around the state the last few years is a good idea,\u201d Stec said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A DOCCS spokesperson said they pulled the request to \u201cfurther refine the scope and strategic focus of this initiative\u201d and that they plan to release a new study request at an undisclosed date.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Corrections officials in New York are pulling back on a proposal for a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,8098,7728,1631],"class_list":["post-346780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-prison","tag-study","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346780","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=346780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}