Suffolk seeks to postpone prison expansion as inmate population drops

Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Yaphank in a 2013 file photo. Photo Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr. When Suffolk County opened 400 new jail cells in Yaphank last year at a cost of $255.5 million, County Executive Steve Bellone lambasted it as a "Taj Mahal," and "terrible news for the taxpayers."

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