New York is closing another prison as the state continues to struggle to staff its correctional facilities and adjust to a two-decade plunge in the number of people who are incarcerated.

The latest site to be shuttered is Bare Hill Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in the state's northernmost region, about 10 miles from the Canadian border. It will close on March 11 after its 293 workers have been offered jobs at nearby facilities and its incarcerated population has been moved, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced on Tuesday, Nov. 18.

Bare Hill was housing 708 incarcerated men as of Nov. 1, which means half its beds are empty, state records show. The state has two other prisons practically adjacent to Bare Hill: the Upstate and Franklin correcti

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