Otisville Correctional Facility

Otisville Correctional Facility

Otisville Correctional Facility is a medium-security state prison located in Orange County, New York, USA. Its location in Otisville facilitates transfers to the federal system prison (Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville), also in Otisville a quarter mile away. Both are in the Town of Mount Hope.

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History

The site was used as a tuberculosis sanitarium (1906 - 1955), a Division of Youth facility (Otisville Training Facility, up to 1972), and briefly a drug treatment center, before it became a state prison.

Due to the length of the prison fence and rough terrain, exterior guards are mounted on horses.

A sawmill for lumber and maple syrup production were soon introduced for prisoner work.

Otisville is commonly regarded as a haven for white-collar criminals,[1] and in 2009, was listed by Forbes magazine as the 10th "cushiest" prison in the United States.[2] Both the state and federal prisons presently house "an unusually high percentage of Jewish inmates", and there exist special facilities for Jewish prisoners (including an on-site rabbi and a kosher kitchen).[3]

Bernard Madoff had requested to be imprisoned at the federal prison at Otisville. His request was denied on July 6, 2009.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ New York (magazine), "Medium-Security Seder," by Peter Hyman (April 13th, 2008 - retrieved on May 17th, 2011).
  2. ^ Forbes, "America's 10 Cushiest Prisons," by Asher Hawkins (July 13th, 2009 - retrieved on May 17th, 2011).
  3. ^ The Telegraph, "Bernard Madoff transferred to Charles Ponzi's one-time prison," by James Quinn (July 14th, 2009 - retrieved on May 17th, 2011).
  4. ^ The Jewish Chronicle "Madoff's 'Jewish jail' plea denied by judge," by Jessica Elgot (July 6th, 2009 - retrieved on July 6th, 2009).

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Coordinates: 41°29′46″N 74°31′25″W / 41.49611°N 74.52361°W / 41.49611; -74.52361


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