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Clinton Correctional Still Exists and It Is Suffering
Long after the escape of 2015, real officers and their families remain
I got into an argument once with a woman from Long Island. She tried to tell me that the many college-aged students that come to my region of New York to attend college are what keeps northern New York’s economy afloat. You see, I have to laugh at people like her — entitled, elitist, know-it-alls that think there is nothing outside of the confines of New York City. Like I told this woman, let me tell you something about my part of New York State. First of all, when I say upstate, I don’t mean Albany. I mean the Adirondacks. From the midrange of the ADK Park and everything north to the Canadian border, encompassing Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, and Hamilton counties. We’re hearty folk that sounds a lot like our neighboring Canadians, where many of our ancestors came from, and we laugh when Southerners have snow days with 2 inches of powder on the ground. I often tell friends, not from the area that we are all basically House Stark from “Game of Thrones” and some of us even have a touch of Wildling mixed in.
Our winters are hard. Plattsburgh once had a record low of -34. We love our apple orchards, our “Michigan” sauce and the real lifeblood of our local economy, besides the University…
