After months of speculation, it's come to this: Zero prisons in the north country will close.

Your politicians will undoubtedly take a victory lap about this turn of events. Watertown Correctional Facility and Ogdensburg Correctional Facility had both had a big target on their backs. But they'll both remain open.

Seven prisons elsewhere will close.

And now, the flood of news releases...

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