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Wyoming Correctional Facility is a medium-security state men's prison in Town of Attica, Wyoming County, New York. [1] The prison is located adjacent to the better-known maximum security Attica Correctional Facility. The Wyoming prison first opened in 1984. As of 2010 Wyoming had a working capacity of 1722 inmates. [2]
Wyoming entered the Union in 1890. As a territory, inmates were held at the Wyoming Territorial Prison at Laramie. Work began for a state prison at Rawlins in 1888, but the facility did not open until 1901. The building had 104 cells and housed both male and female inmates. In 1909, female inmates were transported to Colorado to serve their ...
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 Jefferson: Medium 1956 882 Cayuga Correctional Facility ...
Wyoming State Penitentiary is also the location of Wyoming's death row for men and execution chamber, which is located in the prison's parole board meeting room. No death sentences have been carried out in Wyoming since the 1992 execution of convicted murderer Mark Hopkinson , and, in 2018, there were no inmates on death row.
Attica is the location of two state prisons: New York's maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility and medium-security Wyoming Correctional Facility, both located south of the Village of Attica. Since the 1930s Attica had been a prison town, and most correctional officers live here or nearby with their families.
Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution (WMCI) is a prison for men located in Torrington, Wyoming, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] WMCI, a facility of the Wyoming Department of Corrections , serves as an intake center for men who are not sentenced to death.
Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison campus in the Town of Attica, New York, [2] [3] operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. It was constructed in the 1930s in response to earlier riots within the New York state prisons.
The Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution (WMCI) is located in Torrington. [20] [21] [22] WMCI, a facility of the Wyoming Department of Corrections, serves as an intake center for male inmates not sentenced to death. It was opened on January 6, 2010, and the first 75 inmates to be housed there arrived on January 13, 2010.