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Tompkins County Jail
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
NY
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
The Tompkins County Jail has been described as having grimy conditions, with inmates crammed into spaces during searches. Personal belongings, including photos and letters, have been tossed about during these searches, indicating a lack of care for inmate property.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
Inmates have reported being subjected to aggressive searches where personal items were thrown around. One account describes being placed in solitary confinement for possessing drugs they did not have.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
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-project10 Jun 2022
nd white. Over crosswords, Susan told me about growing up as a Navy brat, then going on to attend Smith College and eventually getting into drinking. By the time I met her in the Tompkins County Jail in 2011, she’d racked up a long, long string of DWIs. More than anything else, she said, she wanted help. She seemed so earnest and calm and full of acceptance — all rare traits in the county jail,
- marshall-project14 Oct 2021
muggled in — then came back shouting. They tore through everything we owned, tossing our photos and letters from home all over the floor, like they meant nothing. I’d been in the Tompkins County Jail on a drug charge for seven months by then, so I’d seen searches before, but this felt different. This article was published in partnership with NBC News . The guards crammed us all into a grimy
Data completeness
26%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Tompkins County Jail. Retrieved October 22, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/tompkins-county-jail
"Tompkins County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 22, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/tompkins-county-jail.
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