Patrick Tine, Staff Writer / Times Union
The maximum security facility in Washington County is one of two prisons in the state scheduled to close in November.
FORT ANN — Nearly a thousand correction officers, their families and supporters crowded a truck stop in this Washington County community Sunday to protest the planned closure of Great Meadow Correctional Facility.
Representatives from the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, the union for uniformed staff at the maximum security prison, and a number of local and state elected officials including U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, spoke for over an hour praising the officers and accusing Gov. Kathy Hochul of neglecting upstate communities that state prisons often support.