Fishkill Correctional Facility
Multi-security level prison in New York, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fishkill Correctional Facility is a multi-security level prison in New York, United States. The prison is located in both the Town of Fishkill and the City of Beacon in Dutchess County. Fishkill was constructed in 1896. It began as the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Location | 18 Strack Drive Beacon, New York |
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Status | open |
Security class | minimum, medium and maximum |
Capacity | 1800 |
Opened | 1977 |
Managed by | New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
As a minimum security facility, it houses both inmates that work outside the facility on behalf of the prison and inmates that are in the work release temporary release program. As a medium security facility it houses general population and Office of Mental Health inmates. As a maximum security facility it houses inmates under disciplinary segregation in the S-Block Special Housing Unit.
Fishkill also houses the Regional Medical Unit for Southern New York's prisons.