This week, State Senator George Borrello joins our Terry Frank by phone to discuss multiple issues, including the recent inmate attack on two people at the Lakeview Shock Incarceration Facility in the town of Portland. Borrello calls it an unprovoked, and brutal attack on a woman who was teaching a class when the inmate attacked her, punching her several times, and shoving her so that her head struck a metal desk. A corrections officer also tried to intervene, but, he was also attacked and injured. Both were taken to local hospitals... and, he says it took six more COs to finally subdue the inmate. Borrello says it's time to repeal the state's HALT Act to allow inmate punishments for bad behavior. We also discuss his call for the state to have an independent analysis of New York's Medicaid rolls, because the comptroller has reported there are 8.5-million recipients geting at least some benefits, but, only 5.5-million are actually eligible. A third topic was Gov. Kathy Hochul's 30-day budget amendment to provide another 100-million in Temporary Municipal Assistance to several cities in the state... including 1.6-million to the city of Jamestown. He applauded that move, but, feels the legislature needs to do more to help local governments reduce their costs.
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