Legal prison visitation returns today at Orleans Correctional with Albion expected within 2 weeks
30 of 42 prisons reopen for legal visits today
File photo by Tom Rivers: Orleans Correctional Facility, a medium security men’s prison on Gaines Basin Road in Albion, will resume legal visits inmates today.
ALBION – The state is resuming legal visits at 30 of the 42 prisons beginning today. That is the first time for legal visits after a strike at the prisons started about a month ago.
The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision declared the strike over a week ago, and said 2,000 corrections officers had been fired after not reporting to work on the March 10 deadline.
The strike started on Feb. 17 at Elmira and Collins, and by the next day spread to most of the other prisons, including Albion and Orleans.
DOCCS said legal visitations for incarcerated people and their attorneys returns today at Orleans, Wyoming, Wende, Attica, Collins and 30 prisons in all.
Albion Correctional, a women’s prison, is listed to reopen for legal visits in the next 1 to 2 weeks but a specific date is to be determined. Albion is among nine prisons to have legal visits resuming in 1 to 2 weeks. Three prisons – Bare Hill, Sing Sing and Upstate – are “indeterminate” for when visits will resume.
