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Constructed in 1816 [5] as Auburn Prison, it was the second state prison in New York (after New York City's Newgate, 1797–1828), the site of the first execution by electric chair in 1890, and the namesake of the "Auburn system," a correctional system in which prisoners were housed in solitary confinement in large rectangular buildings, and ...
Altona Correctional Facility: Clinton: Medium 1983 512 Attica Correctional Facility: Wyoming: Maximum 1931 2,253 Auburn Correctional Facility: Cayuga: Maximum 1818 1,821 Bare Hill Correctional Facility: Franklin: Medium 1988 1,722 Bedford Hills Correctional Facility: Westchester: Maximum (female) 1901 921 Cape Vincent Correctional Facility ...
The workers’ protests triggered officials to cancel all visitation at Elmira, Attica, Auburn, Five Points, Upstate, Clinton, Wende, Green Haven, Cocsackie and Eastern NY correction facilities ...
The Auburn correctional facility was the first prison to profit from prisoner labor. To ensure silence and to compel prisoners to work, agent Lynds, at first hired to oversee construction and command workers, used several methods of violence and coercion. [3] The prison had many sightseers in the 19th century.
Lt. Troy Mitchell, with the help of other guards, is accused of pouring buckets of water over the mouths and noses of two shackled inmates at the Auburn Correctional Facility in separate incidents ...
Officers at Auburn Correctional Facility in Auburn, New York, stood in inclement weather Wednesday to protest unsafe working conditions. ... The strike also follows the killing of inmate David Brooks.
Prior to the 2007 repeal of the death penalty, the male death row was at the Clinton Correctional Facility and the female death row was at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. [38] The execution chamber was located at the Green Haven Correctional Facility. [39] Previously, inmates had been executed at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility. [40]
Robert Garrow: A serial rapist/murderer, he served twice at Clinton Correctional - 1961–1963 for rape (transferred to Auburn Correctional Facility), and 1974–1977 for second-degree murder (transferred to Auburn Correctional Facility, followed by transfer to Fishkill Correctional Facility in 1978). [12]