Move Sing Sing?
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- March
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While upstate communities have been fighting – and winning- to keep prisons open that the state wants to close, a Westchester lawmaker said she would love to get rid of a local prison.
“Too bad we just couldn’t move Sing Sing upstate,’’ said Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, D-Ossining, musing that the prime riverfront property that the prison occupies could be used for far more productive purposes.
Alas, Sing Sing is a maximum-security prison, and the state has few empty beds in those. The ones that the Department of Correctional Services wanted to close – but was thwarted by the Legislature – were medium and minimum-security facilities.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
