Minnesota corrections officials say they’ll close the state’s two smallest prisons — in Willow River and Togo — to help plug a 14-million-dollar budget gap. They says most of 100 state employee positions at the two facilities will be eliminated, however some personnel must be retained to support programs at other minimum-custody prisons. Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell says the closures are “immensely difficult, but Minnesotans rightly expect his department be a responsible steward of public resources.