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Fishkill Correctional Facility
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Fishkill Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Dutchess County, New York. Rated capacity: 1,840. Reported population: 1,635. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Fishkill Correctional Facility is a multi-security level prison in New York, United States. The prison is located in both the Town of Fishkill and the City of Beacon in Dutchess County. Fishkill was constructed in 1896. It began as the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. As a minimum security facility, it houses both inmates that work outside the facility on behalf of the prison and inmates that are in the work release temporary release program.
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Capacity
1,840
Current population
1,635
Occupancy
89%
Year opened
1977
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1977
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
Inmates were reportedly placed in solitary confinement and threatened after speaking with lawyers, reporters, and the family of a prisoner who died at the hands of officers. Additionally, violence and hostile control over phone time were documented issues.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 10/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
- · Multiple in-custody-death signals in sources
This facility scores 15. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 13 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project12 Aug 2021
trators tried to better regulate phone usage and stop the violence, but the strong owned and meted out the phone time. It was the very definition of a hostile takeover. I was at Fishkill Correctional Facility last year when COVID-19 flexed on humanity. I was voted chairman of the Inmate Liaison Committee (ILC) and took an oath to represent the population's pain to the administration. Thankfully,
- marshall-project24 Sept 2020
led. Those skills, a few good people in my life and prayer have saved me from committing the unthinkable. I did have a reprieve from my current habitat this summer. A coworker at Fishkill Correctional Facility’s general library tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, I had to be quarantined and observed for a minimum of 14 days. The circumstances were unkind to my coworker, but for me they
- marshall-project23 Aug 2015
y corrections officers who pressed them for information about the breakout. In a separate instance, inmates who witnessed the April death of a prisoner at the hands of officers at Fishkill Correctional Facility were reportedly put into solitary confinement and threatened after speaking with lawyers, reporters and the dead inmate’s family. State corrections officials have said they will
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 (Q5455095)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Fishkill Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fishkill-correctional-facility
"Fishkill Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fishkill-correctional-facility.
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