End of a long chapter in Windsor as prison closes

Corrections work crew supervisor Dana LaPlante loads a metal detector taken from the gatehouse of the Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor onto a truck Monday. Photo by James M. Patterson/Valley News(This story by correspondent Patrick O’Grady was published in the Valley News on Nov. 1, 2017.)
WINDSOR — Southeast State Correctional Facility closed on Tuesday, putting a quiet end to the town’s 208 years of hosting a state prison, which was the first of its kind in th