United States · New York · Romulus
Five Points Correctional Facility
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Five Points Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Seneca County, New York. Rated capacity: 1,587. Reported population: 1,259. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Five Points Correctional Facility (FPCF) is a maximum security state prison for men located in Romulus, New York, and operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Five Points is known as a supermax prison.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,587
Current population
1,259
Occupancy
79%
Year opened
2000
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
2000
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
- Lemuel Smith1941 · serial killer
Lemuel Warren Smith (born July 23, 1941) is an American convicted serial killer who was the first convict to kill an on-duty female corrections officer.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
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
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
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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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 (Q5456096)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Five Points Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/five-points-correctional-facility
"Five Points Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/five-points-correctional-facility.
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