Politics 101
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- March
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Just taking a wild guess, it may be significant that there are more than 31,000 people who work in the state prison system, and just over 1,300 judges.
So today Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno sided with the prison workers on whether to close some prisons (he said no) and against the judges who want a raise for the first time in 10 years (he said no again). And the last time anyone checked, a prison worker’s vote counted as much as that of a judge.
Oh, and another number Bruno didn’t mention: there were 62,361 prisoners in state facilities yesterday – more than 9,000 fewer than nine years ago. Seems like that means we should need fewer prisons and prison workers.
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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. 
