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Great Meadow and Sullivan prisons are slated to shut down in November. The state could close up to three more over the next year.

New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision will close two of the state’s maximum security prisons, including one of its most notorious, the agency announced Thursday.

By November 6, DOCCS will shutter Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Washington County, and Sullivan Correctional Facility, in Sullivan County, as part of a plan set in motion in this year’s state budget legislation, which allowed the executive to quickly close up to five state correctional facilities over the fiscal year.

Medicare Advantage plans are spreading across upstate New York, despite a reputation for denying care. In Cortland County, retirees kept it at bay. New York Focus contributor Chris Stanton shared the reporting with Radio Catskill.

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