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Elmira Correctional Facility
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Superintendent: Kevin McCarthyElmira Correctional Facility is a maximum security level facility for males.
Background
Elmira Correctional Facility, also known as "The Hill", is a maximum security state prison located in Chemung County, in the City of Elmira in the US state of New York. It is operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. A supermax prison, Southport Correctional Facility, was located 2 miles (3.2 km) away from Elmira. Southport closed in 2022. The facility was founded in 1876 as the Elmira Reformatory and run by its controversial superintendent Zebulon Brockway.
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Year opened
1876
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Population held
male
Opened
1876
Region
NY
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.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
62%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- NYS DOCCS facility — Elmira Correctional Facility
- NYS DOCCS facility directory
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- New York State DOCCS — facility directory — State of New York
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.