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Mid-Hudson briefs: Green Haven prison lockdown ending

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Green Haven prison lockdown ending; contraband found

STORMVILLE – The state's prison department is phasing down a lockdown that began Monday at Green Haven Correctional Facility during a comprehensive "frisk" that turned up contraband.

The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision declined to say what the contraband was.

However, in late August, a correction officer who worked at Green Haven was charged by state police with taking a bribe to introduce a pound of marijuana into the prison.

The maximum security prison was placed on a "complete lockdown order" Monday by Acting Commissioner Anthony Annucci "in order for the facility to undergo a thorough and complete frisk," said Linda Foglia, spokeswoman for the department.

A lockdown means prisoners are confined to their cells.

Dad, son rescued from Hudson after kayaks trapped by tide

TIVOLI – A father-and-son kayaking expedition turned into a rescue after the pair ran into trouble on the Hudson River on Saturday.

The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that they were called Saturday evening by a woman whose 50-year-old husband and 9-year-old son had failed to return from a kayaking trip. The pair had set out about 3:30 p.m. that day and were due back for dinner at 7 p.m.

The sheriff's marine unit set a boat patrol to the area near Tivoli. Inspection of a video and photo the caller got from her son led officers to believe the pair were near Cruger and Magdalene islands and the North Tivoli Bay area. They got help from the Ulster County Sheriff and the Tivoli Fire Department.

At 2:45 a.m. Sunday, Tivoli firefighters on a Zodiac boat found the pair on the east shore of the Tivoli Bay area, cold but otherwise OK. The father, not identified, said his son was pulled by a swift current under a railroad bridge into the bay. The father left his kayak to get under the bridge and stay with his son. The changing tide barred them from leaving as daylight dwindled.