C M Y K A 3-part investigative series looking into : deaths at the former Greene County Jail BEHIND BARS running August 8, 11 and 12 INSIDE Greene County Jail in the Register-Star and The Daily Mail. THIS PAPER The Daily Mail WEEKEND Copyright 2020, Columbia-Greene Media All Rights Reserved The nation’s fourth-oldest newspaper • Serving Greene County since 1792 Price $2.50 Volume 228, No. 157 Saturday-Sunday, August 8-9, 2020 n FORECASTWEATHER FOR HUDSON/CA TODAY TONIGHT SUN Cuomo clears NY schools to open By Kate Lisa everywhere in the state,” the gover- Mike Groll/Office of Gov. Johnson Newspaper Corp. nor said. “Based on our infection rate, Andrew M. Cuomo ALBANY — New York schools have New York state is in the best possible Gov. Andrew Some sun, a Mostly Partly sunny the green light to reopen this fall as situation right now. If any state can Cuomo speaks stray t-storm cloudy the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic open schools, this state can do it. 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PAGE B1 law in county n LOCAL In pursuit of a jail deaths By Sarah Trafton donor fund Columbia-Greene Media Greene lawmakers are CATSKILL – Corrections officers with the looking into formation of a Greene County Sheriff’s Office violated state law and its own policies, which could have C-GCC donor fund to aid prevented the 2018 suicide of one inmate at county students the now-closed Greene County Jail, and au- PAGE A8 thorities did not properly investigate the death of another, according to a December 2019 state report. n INDEX The jail, overseen by the Greene County Region A3 Sheriff’s Office, had four suicides and one Opinion A4 overdose in the last 12 years. Two of the deaths State/Nation A5 remain under investigation by the state Com- Obituaries A5 mission of Correction. Sports B1 The original county jail, built in 1908 on Classified B6 Bridge Street in the village of Catskill, was Comics/Advice B7-B8 closed April 20, 2018, following a Kaaterskill Associates analysis that revealed the south On the web wall of the building was structurally compro- mised, or dangerous for inmates and staff. www.HudsonValley360.com Construction on a new 64-bed Greene Twitter County Jail, adjacent to the maximum secu- rity Coxsackie Correctional Facility on Route Follow: 9W, is expected to start accepting inmates in @CatskillDailyMail July 2021. The jail project is funded by a $39 Facebook million bond from Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. www.facebook.com/ at 2.49% interest and an $8.1 million contri- CatskillDailyMail/ bution from county taxpayers. Greene County Jail’s population peaked at 85 inmates in 2013, according to 2010- 2019 Commission of Correction census re- cords. Four suicides, with two under state The former Greene County Jail outpaces similar-sized facilities across the state in the number of suicides and overdoses in the last 12 years. Note: Greene County’s inmate population declined further See BARS A7 in 2019 to 35, but the jail closed in April 2018. .