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Attica Correctional Facility
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Attica Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Wyoming County, New York. Rated capacity: 2,141. Reported population: 2,009. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison campus in the town of Attica, New York, operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. It was constructed in the 1930s in response to earlier riots within the New York state prisons. A CS gas system (chlorobenzylidine malononitrile) installed in the mess hall and industry areas has been used to quell conflicts in these areas. The prison now holds numerous inmates who are serving various types of sentences (short-term to life). They are often sent to this facility because of disciplinary problems in other facilities.
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Capacity
2,141
Current population
2,009
Occupancy
94%
Year opened
1931
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1931
Region
New York
Security level
Maximum
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.
Notable inmates
H. Rap Brown1943–2025 · human rights defenderJamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943 â November 23, 2025) was an African-American activist who served as the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s.
Mark David Chapman1955 · inmateMark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American man who murdered musician John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980.
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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
- 10/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · In-custody-death signal in sources
- · Mass-event keyword in sources (riot / massacre / uprising)
This facility scores 10. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 8 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project12 Aug 2021
, until she completely vanished. I didn't call home that night. Neither did my opponent. We fought. We hurt each other for the right to use the phone. I n 1998 I found myself in Attica Correctional Facility, where hardened men were like the living dead. We could only make collect calls, and our loved ones paid the cost. And the violence was rampant. To take and maintain total control over the
- propublica2 Dec 2020
r the people making grievances.” “You cannot be the judge and the jury and the prosecutor.” “A Safety Valve” for Inmates In the fall of 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over Attica Correctional Facility in New York to protest abuse and poor living conditions. It was one of the most violent prison standoffs in U.S. history, leaving 43 people dead. Over the next few years, other prison uprisings
- marshall-project25 Sept 2015
ions. In New Mexico, a riot in 1980 at the main state penitentiary, near Santa Fe, led to the deaths of 33 prisoners. It was the most violent takeover of a prison since the one at Attica Correctional Facility, in upstate New York, nine years earlier. Marcantel told others on the trip that this riot fueled a popular belief in his state that rehabilitation was a farce because prisoners were always
Data 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 (Q758034)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Attica Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/attica-correctional-facility
"Attica Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/attica-correctional-facility.
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