List of New York state prisons

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is responsible for the care, confinement, and rehabilitation of approximately 54,700 inmates at 52 correctional facilities owned and operated by the State of New York (as of 2019).[1]

This is a list of state prisons in New York.

As of 2016 New York does not contract with private prisons, according to state law.[2]

Facilities
Sing Sing Correctional Facility
Attica Correctional Facility
Edgecombe Correctional Facility
Partial view of Gowanda Correctional Facility with power plant in background at left, September 1996

The following list does not include federal prisons, New York City jails, or county jails located in the state of New York.

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References
  1. http://www.doccs.ny.gov/, http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_Fewer_Prisoners_Less_Crime.pdf retrieved 2014-08-14
  2. "Corrections statue section 121". New York State Senate. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
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