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Great Meadow Correctional Facility
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Great Meadow Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Washington County, New York. Reported population: 1,649. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Great Meadow Correctional Facility was a maximum security prison in New York State in the United States. The prison is in Comstock, a hamlet right outside of the village of Fort Ann in Washington County, New York. As of September 3, 2008 it was home to 1,663 inmates. When Great Meadow opened in 1911 it was the fourth prison for adult males constructed in the state of New York. It closed down on November 6, 2024.
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Capacity
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Current population
1,649
Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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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
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Lucky Luciano1897–1962 · gangsterCharles "Lucky" Luciano ( LOO-chee-AH-noh; Italian: [luËtÊaËno]; born Salvatore Lucania [salvaËtoËre lukaËniËa]; November 24, 1897 â January 26, 1962) was an Italian gangster who operated mainly in the United States.
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Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
6/100
Low concern6/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 5/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
- · In-custody-death signal in sources
This facility scores 6. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 4 points above national average.
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Reports
- marshall-project8 Jul 2022
ody, but I was completely alone. And I couldn’t find the words to express my grief, anyway. A fter his suicide attempt, Tori transferred from Coxsackie to a mental health unit in Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Staff from the Office of Mental Health would show up throughout the week, but most of his interactions were with guards who were minimally trained to deal with people who had serious
Data completeness
68%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
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5599550)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/great-meadow-correctional-facility
Chicago
"Great Meadow Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/great-meadow-correctional-facility.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-great-meadow-correctional-f,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Great Meadow Correctional Facility},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/great-meadow-correctional-facility},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}