The Citizen

AUBURN, N.Y. — The union representing New York state correction officers said that 11 staff members at Auburn Correctional Facility were recently taken to the hospital after being exposed to unknown substances.

In a news release Tuesday, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association said the incidents occurred over a three-day period this month.

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Two officers were transported by ambulance on Aug. 3, NYSCOPBA said, after becoming lightheaded with headaches and chills while searching a cell and handling an inmate’s mail that was damp from being soaked in an unknown substance.

On Aug. 5, the union continued, an officer conducting rounds in a cell block and a staff

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