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Levy will fight sheriff's plan to hire 200 at new jail

Suffolk Sheriff Vincent DeMarco filed a plan with the state correction commission to hire 200 officers to open the new Yaphank county jail, but County Executive Steve Levy says he will fight it.

"Requiring the hiring of 150 new officers is a budget buster," said Levy, adding it "runs counter to the . . . commission's original representation that a state-of-the-art jail would lessen, not increase,...

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