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Gowanda Correctional Facility
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Gowanda Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Erie County, New York. Rated capacity: 1,755. Reported population: 1,490. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Gowanda Correctional Facility was a medium-security prison for men located in Gowanda, New York, United States. The prison was located in the south part of Erie County in the Town of Collins. It was adjacent to the Collins Correctional Facility, another medium-security prison. Both prisons were located north of Village of Gowanda at the southern end of Erie County. It opened in 1994 and closed in 2021.
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Capacity
1,755
Current population
1,490
Occupancy
85%
Year opened
1994
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1994
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
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- 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 peersOccupancythis: 85% · peers avg: 93% (9%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1755 · peers avg: 547 (+221%)
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
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5589988)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Gowanda Correctional Facility. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gowanda-correctional-facility
Chicago
"Gowanda Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gowanda-correctional-facility.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-gowanda-correctional-facili,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Gowanda Correctional Facility},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gowanda-correctional-facility},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}