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Altona Correctional Facility
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Altona Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Clinton County, New York. Rated capacity: 512. Reported population: 739. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Altona Correctional Facility is a medium security prison in New York in the United States. The prison is in the Town of Altona in Clinton County. As of 2010 Altona had a working capacity of 512.
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Capacity
512
Current population
739
Occupancy
144%
Year opened
1983
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1983
Region
New York
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
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
- 12/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 144% of design capacity
This facility scores 12. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 10 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%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 (Q4736935)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Altona Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/altona-correctional-facility
"Altona Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/altona-correctional-facility.
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