Jails & Prisons

Onondaga County Legislator Mary Kuhn and community member Andy Mager voiced displeasure about the process of closing Jamesville.

The plan calls for Onondaga County to send incarcerated individuals outside the county if the jail population exceeds capacity.

The proposal has drawn the ire of Sheriff Toby Shelley and Democrats on the Legislature.

Legislators will vote on four proposals related to Jamesville Correctional Facility on Tuesday.

County Executive Ryan McMahon proposed the closure in December.

Onondaga County Legislature chairman Jim Rowley said he plans to sponsor the county administration’s proposal.

A Legislature committee meeting on Tuesday is likely the last hurdle the proposal to close the facility needs to clear before being put to a vote.

Officials from the sheriff’s office and county executive’s office offered competing accounts of how to fix a staffing problem at the jail.