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Bayview Correctional Facility. Bridewell (New York City jail) Brooklyn Detention Complex. Harold A. Wildstein. James A. Thomas Center. Ludlow Street Jail. Manhattan Detention Complex. Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (may reopen) New York Women's House of Detention.
List of New York state prisons. This is a list of state prisons in New York . The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is the department of the New York State government that maintains the state prisons and parole system. [ 1] There are 44 prisons funded by the State of New York, and approximately 28,200 parolees ...
The Vernon C. Bain Center was the third prison barge that the New York Department of Corrections has used. In its history, the prison has served traditional inmates, juvenile inmates and is currently used as a holding and temporary processing center. The added security of the prison being on water has prevented at least four attempted escapes.
Clinton Correctional Facility. / 44.7236; -73.7208. Clinton Correctional Facility is a New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision maximum security state prison for men located in the Village of Dannemora, New York. [ 1][ 2] The prison is sometimes colloquially referred to as Dannemora (having once served as a massive ...
Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) [ 1][ 2] prison island in the East River in the Bronx [ 3] that contains New York City 's largest jail. [ 4][ 5] Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under 100 acres (40 ha) in size, but has since grown to more than 400 acres (160 ha).
The New York State prison system had its beginnings in 1797 with a single prison called Newgate located in New York City. A second state prison opened 20 years later in Auburn in 1817, and in 1825 a group of Auburn prisoners made the voyage across the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to begin building Sing Sing in the village of Ossining ...
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York ( MCC New York) is a temporarily closed United States federal administrative detention facility in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan, New York City, located on Park Row behind the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse at Foley Square. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a ...
The New York City Department of Correction ( NYCDOC) is the branch of the municipal government of New York City [1] responsible for the custody, control, and care of New York City 's imprisoned population, housing the majority of them on Rikers Island. [2] It employs 7,060 uniformed officers and 1,727 civilian staff, has 543 vehicles, and ...