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Tuesday, January 03, 2012  As the inmate population dropped to about 56,000 currently, continuing a decade-long decline, the Cuomo administration this summer closed two other medium-security prisons, Mid-Orange in the lower Hudson Valley and Oneida in central New York.

Sunday, July 31, 2011  The New York Jets have reached an agreement in principle with receiver Plaxico Burress, the former Super Bowl star recently released from prison after serving 20 months on a gun charge.

Monday, July 18, 2011  Rapper and actor Ja Rule was sentenced Monday to more than two years in federal prison for failing to file income tax returns, and said a combination of youthful inexperience, bad advice and an inability to manage fame and fortune lead to his financial troubles.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011  A large rally took place Tuesday afternoon in front of the State Office Building in Utica in an attempt to save two local prisons from closing.

Thursday, June 30, 2011  Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will close seven state prisons, camps and work release facilities to save money as New York's inmate population keeps declining.

Monday, June 06, 2011  Former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress is out of prison after nearly two years behind bars on a gun charge.

Friday, February 11, 2011  Imprisoned actor Lillo Brancato beat up a fellow inmate at The Oneida Correctional Facility, The New York Post reports.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010  The former director of food services for New York's prisons, who was also a supervisor at the Oneida Correctional Facility near Rome, took favors including three-day picnics, years of free dinners and other parties in exchange for steering $2.5 million worth of contracts to vendors, state investigators said Tuesday.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010  A New York state prison inmate has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing another prisoner last year after the other man slapped him in front of other inmates.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010  Investigators say a prison supervisor at the Oneida Correctional Facility took Fridays off for 17 years as part of a half million dollar scheme to defraud the taxpayers.