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Upstate Correctional Facility
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Upstate Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Franklin County, New York. Rated capacity: 1,500. Reported population: 1,221. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
1,500
Current population
1,221
Occupancy
81%
Year opened
1998
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1998
Region
New York
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
Upstate Correctional Facility utilizes double cells for its solitary confinement units, housing disruptive inmates together with showers located in the corners of the cell. Recreation takes place in cages at the back, meaning cellmates are almost never separated from one another.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
The facility has documented deadly consequences of solitary confinement, including instances where cellmates strangled each other. The intense desire for separation leads some inmates to fake medical and mental-health crises to be removed from their cellmates.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project7 May 2020
Solitary Our running joke: ‘You may go crazy in here, but at least you won’t get corona.’ Filed 10:00 p.m. EDT 05.07.2020 Wesley Williams is a writer incarcerated at Upstate Correctional Facility in New York. Courtesy of Emily Nonko Wesley Williams is a writer incarcerated at Upstate Correctional Facility in New York. Courtesy of Emily Nonko T o listen to my governor, Andrew Cuomo, hold his daily
- marshall-project24 Mar 2016
h a novel idea: build an entire supermax prison of double cells to house disruptive inmates. With showers in the corners of the cell and recreation cages in the back, cellmates at Upstate Correctional Facility are almost never separate from one another. Read how two inmates went into a cell at Upstate, and only one came out alive. Solitary Confinement, Punished For Life, New York Times, August
- marshall-project24 Mar 2016
, which ended when one strangled the other. After realizing what he had done, he screamed for the guards’ help. The desire to be separated from cellmates can be so strong that at Upstate Correctional Facility in New York, where all but ten of the prison’s 600 solitary cells are double cells, inmates may fake medical and mental-health crises in hopes of being removed, according to reentry
Data completeness
84%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
- New York State DOCCS â facility directory — State of New York
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7899313)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Upstate Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/upstate-correctional-facility
"Upstate Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/upstate-correctional-facility.
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