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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.
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
Population held
female
Opened
1894
Region
New York
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
The facility features a noisy visiting room equipped with beat-up tables. Meals are described as generally unappetizing, though specific quality varies by occasion.
Visitors must undergo a tedious screening process before being allowed to sit with inmates.
No mailing information available.
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No major issues documented in our database.
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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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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
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World Prisons. (2026). Albion Correctional Facility. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/albion-correctional-facility
"Albion Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed August 30, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/albion-correctional-facility.
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