United States · New York · East Elmhurst
George Motchan Detention Center
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George Motchan Detention Center is a local jail located in Bronx County, New York. Rated capacity: 2,098. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
2,098
Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
East Elmhurst local correctionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
New York
Security level
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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
- 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 peersReports
- propublica10 Dec 2019
ate how to distribute inmates across housing units to minimize the risk of conflict. By July 2015, eight Restart units, housing a total of about 250 inmates, were in place at the George Motchan Detention Center, one of the 10 jails on Rikers Island at the time and known as GMDC. Within weeks, the data showed violence far below the norm. Restart units for higher-security inmates, for example,
- marshall-project28 Jun 2015
Feedback? [email protected] Feature Filed 9 p.m. 06.28.2015 This is Rikers From the people who live and work there. A holding cell at Rikers Island’s George Motchan Detention Center, taken June 25, 2015. Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo, for New York Magazine A s long as the City of New York has owned Rikers Island, since the 1880s, it has been a place for the unwanted. For a time, pigs
Data completeness
60%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
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). George Motchan Detention Center. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/george-motchan-detention-center
"George Motchan Detention Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/george-motchan-detention-center.
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title = {George Motchan Detention Center},
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