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Social media was wrong about Greene County prison escape; it was just a drill

Aug 05, 2021 12:11 pm

Andrea Macko reports at Porcupine Soup that there was fake news on the internet locally this week. Posts on social media claimed a prisoner had escaped from either the maximum-security Coxsackie Correctional Facility or the neighboring medium-security Greene Correctional Facility. “That rumor is false,” the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision reported in a statement. “All incarcerated individuals in DOCCS custody are accounted for. There was an escape pursuit drill conducted earlier today at Coxsackie Correctional Facility.” There was a brief prison escape at the Albany County jail Aug. 3. The unidentified prisoner scaled a perimeter fence and a secondary security fence around 10 a.m. and ran toward the Shaker Ridge Country Club. But corrections officers witnessed the escape, and caught the escapee on the golf course across Albany Shaker Road. But there have not been any escapes at Greene and Coxsackie for more than 30 years. Read more about this story at Porcupine Soup.

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