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Greene Correctional Facility
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Greene Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Greene County, New York. Rated capacity: 1,755. Reported population: 1,648. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Greene Correctional Facility is a state prison for men located in Coxsackie, Greene County, New York, owned and operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. The facility opened in 1989 and holds 1582 inmates at medium security, which includes 171 held in a maximum security unit. Greene is adjacent to the state's Coxsackie Correctional Facility, originally built in 1935. Several incarcerated individuals have been killed by other inmates while in custody at this facility. Inmates at this facility are also responsible for numerous assaults on staff.
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Capacity
1,755
Current population
1,648
Occupancy
94%
Year opened
1984
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1984
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
- 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
- marshall-project6 Jun 2016
ntingdon . Then he was brought back to SCI Pittsburgh . Then he briefly was placed in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons. Then he was sent to SCI Graterford . Then to SCI Greene . Then to SCI Rockview . Then to SCI Smithfield . Then to SCI Forest . Then back to SCI Huntingdon . Then back to SCI Rockview . Then, finally, to SCI Frackville , where he is today. All this time, in all these
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 (Q28104128)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Greene Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/greene-correctional-facility
"Greene Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/greene-correctional-facility.
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