
New Correctional Facility Wraps Build in Schoharie County
Construction wrapped up recently on the new $35 million Schoharie County Correctional and Public Safety Facility in the village of Schoharie, approximately 40 miles west of Albany.
Construction wrapped up recently on the new $35 million Schoharie County Correctional and Public Safety Facility in the village of Schoharie, approximately 40 miles west of Albany.
Work is substantially complete on the new $40 million Herkimer County Jail in Herkimer, a village located approximately 15 miles southeast of Utica.
Renovations at the Otsego County Jail in Cooperstown, N.Y., are now complete after nine months.
Nearly 40 individuals had been infected with the coronavirus at the Rikers Island complex and nearby jails as of March 22.
The Madison County Renovation project in Madison County, New York was awarded the 2019 Pat Earle Award by the Preservation Association of Central New York (PACNY) in late October at the May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society in Syracuse.
Fulton County has hired an architecture firm to do a design evaluation for a possible future exterior renovation project at the nearly 250-year-old County Courthouse.
The Madison County Courthouse renovation and addition project in Wampsville, N.Y., reached a milestone on April 1 as a bronze statue of Lady Justice was lifted into place on the dome of the 110-year-old structure.
Rikers Island has warehoused some of New York’s most infamous criminals since opening in 1932, at one time or another hosting such notorious inmates as David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz, John Lennon murderer Mark David Chapman and even Sex Pistols raconteur Sid Vicious.
The City of New York has plans to replace detention facilities at Rikers Island with four modern, community-based jails throughout the city.
Bids for the construction of the new Sing Sing firing range are currently being vetted by the construction management team.