The Citizen staff report

AUBURN -- A state police helicopter circling the Auburn Correctional Facility Tuesday morning was conducting routine business, according to multiple sources.

Troopers from the state police headquarters in Auburn and prison officials both reported the chopper, which flew around the prison for more than an hour, was taking overhead photographs of the facility. The state Department of Corrections takes the aerial shots of its prisons every couple years, ACF Superintendent Harold Graham said Tuesday.

Graham said the drill has nothing to with a recent, internal lockdown at the prison, which he said lasted about two days and is over.