As Republicans Resist Closing Prisons, Cuomo Is Said to Scale Back Plan

By DANNY HAKIM and THOMAS KAPLAN
Published: January 28, 2011

ALBANY — Nearly a month ago, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made a call to close some prisons an emotional capstone of his first annual address to the Legislature, vowing, to sustained applause from fellow Democrats, that underused prisons would no longer be “an employment programâ€