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Albion Correctional Facility
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Albion Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Orleans County, New York. Rated capacity: 1,100. Reported population: 1,083. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Albion Correctional Facility is a medium security prison for women in the Town of Albion, Orleans County, New York, United States, that is operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services. The site was founded in 1894 as the Western House of Refuge for Women, then later the Albion State Training School. The prison is just outside the village of Albion. Albion is one of New York facilities exclusively for women, the others being Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Taconic Correctional Facility. Most famously, Albion housed "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher for 3½ years; she was then transferred to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, the only maximum security prison for women in New York State and located in Bedford Hills, New York.
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Capacity
1,100
Current population
1,083
Occupancy
98%
Year opened
1894
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
female
Opened
1894
Region
New York
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
The facility features a noisy visiting room equipped with beat-up tables. Meals are described as generally unappetizing, though specific quality varies by occasion.
Visiting
Visitors must undergo a tedious screening process before being allowed to sit with inmates.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project25 Nov 2020
with meals never particularly worth eating. But on Thanksgiving, I skipped the mess hall: I was lucky. I had a visitor. The person I was dating had driven 2.5 hours to go through Albion Correctional Facility’s tedious screening process and sit across from me at a beat-up table in a noisy visiting room. We didn’t have our families around and were surrounded by prisoners in green and officers in
Data completeness
92%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- New York State DOCCS â facility directory — State of New York
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q4712508)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Albion Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/albion-correctional-facility
"Albion Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/albion-correctional-facility.
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