Another New York prison is set to shut down down, The Post first reported Tuesday — as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration continues to grapple with an ongoing staffing crisis at state lockups.

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed it would close Bare Hill Correctional Facility in Franklin County and part of the Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County, forcing almost 300 workers to move to another premise.

The announcement quickly drew outrage from the corrections officers union.

“Closing prisons is a short-sighted Band-Aid on a gaping wound. It does nothing to address historic staffing shortages, does nothing to curb the record levels of violence inside our facilities, and forces loyal public servants to choose between their livelihoods and their families,” Chris Summers, president of NYSCOPBA, wrote in a statement.

“It is abundantly clear that if you commit to doing this extremely difficult and dangerous job, don’t expect the State of New York to commit to you.”

The move was approved by Democratic lawmakers in this year’s state budget, passed in May, allowing Hochul to close up to three prisons. The state shuttered two facilities just before Christmas last year.

Earlier this year, thousands of corrections officers walked off the job in an illegal three-week wildcat strike.

When Hochul’s administration declared an end to the strike in April, she fired around 2,000 officers, many of whom had refused to return to work.

The prison system is still upwards of 4,000 personnel short and has continued to pay millions for national guard troops who were brought in to back up the short-staffed facilities since the strike – 2,700 of whom are still on duty in the prisons, per DOCCS.

Despite a recruitment campaign by DOCCS since the strike, the agency only employs 11,328 officers, sergeants and lieutenants, up only slightly from 11,089 in June.

DOCCS maintained that staff at Bare Hill will be offered positions at other facilities, though it’s unclear how many of the 293 staff assigned there will actually relocate. The facility will close its doors on March 11, 2026.

DOCCS did not specify if the consolidation of Collins would involve staff reductions.

The agency also noted that both facilities would remain in a “state of ready”, meaning they won’t be completely shuttered.

Upstate pols were quick to condemn Hochul’s move.

“This is another heartless announcement just before the holiday season. Mark my words, correctional officers across the state will be part of our coalition next year that will fire Kathy Hochul to Save New York,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) who reps Bare Hill and is running against Hochul for governor next year told The Post.

Hochul is set to be in Washington, D.C. Wednesday to raise money and meet with backers for her 2026 reelection campaign.State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt said: “Closing prisons is exactly the wrong thing to do. New York’s hardworking, courageous corrections officers deserve our respect, and should not be used as political pawns.”

Even newly elected north country Assemblyman Michael Cashman (D-Clinton), a Democrat, bashed the decision.

“I remain unconvinced that this closure makes anyone safer. In fact, it creates new vulnerabilities at a time when folks across New York are already struggling under the weight of an affordability crisis.”

Others, like state Sen. Julia Salazar, a Democrat who chairs her chambers’ committee that oversees the prisons, think it’s a move in the right direction.

“They should close more,” Salazar told The Post.