Hudson Correctional Facility to be converted to juvenile center

ALBANY – Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on Tuesday directing the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision along with the Office of Children and Family Services to implement a plan to remove minors from adult prisons in the state.
Once implemented by August of 2016, the Hudson Correctional Facility, in Hudson, which is currently a medium security general confinement prison, will be transformed to serve the 16- and 17-year-old population including all medium and minimum security general confinement male youths; all female youths; and will serve as a reception and classification center for all youths entering state prison custody.
By the end of November 2016, additional infrastructure work will be completed to create a juvenile separation unit that will allow those inmates who receive a disciplinary confinement sanction of 30 days or less to also be housed at the Hudson Correctional Facility.