BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (WRGB) — After months of waiting, an inmate at Saratoga County Correctional Facility has learned her fate, reaching out to CBS6 to try to get answers about why she continued to be held in county jail without hearing from her public defender.
Friday morning, Kristin Frisch was sentenced to three years in state prison, followed by three years of post-release supervision, appearing before a judge in Saratoga County Court for the first time in at least half a year.
A fellow inmate reached out to CBS6’s Olivia Jaquith in January on behalf of Frisch, a mother of two who had been behind bars in county jail for the better part of two years. Typically, individuals in New York are only in county jail half that long…