Chester, NY - Parolees to be Banned from Camp La Guardia Shelter

Chester, NY - The Camp La Guardia homeless shelter is no longer accepting parolees and plans to remove the ones already at the 1,001-bed men's shelter in the next 90 days.

The decision was announced at the quarterly meeting between the county, municipalities and New York City, which runs the shelter, according to officials who were at the meeting. "It had been something that we were looking for and pushing for," said Chester Supervisor Bill Tully.

Shelter critics and nearby residents have been demanding for years that parolees not be allowed in the shelter which straddles the towns of Chester, Blooming Grove and Monroe. The residents contend that the parolees are the source of most of their quality-of-life problems.
"That was a victory on our part," said Michele Murphy, who lives beside the shelter.