{"id":347762,"date":"2026-09-15T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347762\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:30:10","slug":"new-york-state-withdraws-plan-for-3000-bed-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347762\/","title":{"rendered":"New York state withdraws plan for 3,000-bed prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York state withdraws plan for 3,000-bed prison<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb\" aria-label=\"Michael Cusanelli profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789511410_671_3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb_1780510546.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Michael Cusanelli\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>NEW YORK \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">New York state has withdrawn a plan to study the construction of a 3,000-bed prison, according to the Albany Times Union.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The state had posted a request to explore the possibility of building the facility, but the proposal was removed from its website over the weekend.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The plan drew sharp criticism from Sen. Dan Stec and Assemblyman Michael Cashman, who said New York needs to first address staffing and safety problems in existing prisons.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The state had not identified a location for the proposed facility.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Editor&#8217;s note: The Albany Times Union is owned by WPTZ parent company Hearst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York state withdraws plan for 3,000-bed prison NEW YORK \u2014 New York state has withdrawn a plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95844,22484,22486,25814,20153,11719,9,11,10,49,51,50,5657,7215,8098,130098,47004,130097,48539,44173,1631,90473,5572,130096,6951,112461],"class_list":["post-347762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-times-union","tag-assemblyman-michael-cashman","tag-cashman","tag-editor","tag-facility","tag-location","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-note","tag-plan","tag-prison","tag-safety-problem","tag-sen-dan-stec","tag-sharp-criticism","tag-staffing","tag-stec","tag-wcax","tag-website","tag-weekend","tag-withdraw","tag-wptz","tag-wptz-parent-company-hearst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347762","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=347762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}