The NYT says you are right:
Still, they may yet fare worse than their white-collar counterparts in federal prisons because New York generally requires that criminals with sentences longer than six years go to maximum-security prisons, to be mixed among men convicted of murder and other violent crimes.
9/20/05 NYT A1
A stupid rule. --- Mark Bennett <mab at straussandasher.com> wrote:
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> Michael Pollak
>
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> > I don't know about NY, but it would surprise me if
> all sentences over
> > six years get you put in a maximum security
> prison.
>
> It seems pretty clear this is true in NY. If it's
> not, the NYT, the NY
> Law Journal and everyone else reporting on it all
> have it wrong.
>
> Michael
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> I read one report which stated that New York doesn't
> even have minimum
> security state penal institutions, which seems hard
> to believe.
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