LOCKPORT, N.Y. — The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the state prison system is still trying to rebuild staffing after Gov. Kathy Hochul’s move to dismiss 2,000 state corrections officers in the wake of their wildcat strike over working conditions.
So now county jails and sheriffs are feeling the burden as they hold on to more sentenced inmates because of that CO staffing shortage in state prisons.
Niagara County Sheriff Michael Filicetti said “they’ve really put us in a predicament here of dealing with issues that are created at the state level and we’re dealing with them at the county level.”…