Briefs

Shutting the door to a “second chance” in Moriah

BY TIM ROWLAND

After Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the Moriah Shock Incarceration Facility would be closing March 10, her office received a bundle of 50 letters in protest. They weren’t from employees in fear of losing their jobs, nor from business leaders concerned about the local economy. The inmates themselves, who believe the small but effective prison is giving them their best chance of survival, wrote to Albany.

If unusual for a typical prison, it is not surprising for Moriah Shock, where inmates stock food pantry shelves and cut hiking trails, and where corrections officers say beleaguered Adirondack residents have been known to cheer inmate work