Mid-State Correctional Facility

Mid-State Correctional Facility is a medium-security state prison located in the town of Marcy, Oneida County, New York.^[1][2] It is adjacent to Marcy Correctional Facility, also a state prison, and to the Central New York Psychiatric Center.^[3] Although classified as medium-security, Mid-State opened a maximum security unit in 1998.^[4]

Mid-State Correctional Facility

Location	9005 Old River Road Marcy, New York
Status	open
Security class	mixed
Capacity	1754
Opened	1983
Managed by	New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

In March 2025, 15 Mid-State staffers were placed on leave following the death of an inmate. This came shortly after the killing of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional.^[5]

Notable prisoners

Inmate Name	Register Number	Status	Details
Colin Ferguson	C39361	Serving a life sentence.[6]	Perpetrator of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting in which he murdered 6 people on a passenger train.[7][8]
Gerald Garson		Served a 3.5-10 year sentence, paroled in 2009	Former New York Supreme Court Justice, convicted of accepting bribes[9]
Cormega			Hip-hop artist[10]
Prodigy		Served 3 years	Hip-hop artist convicted of criminal possession of a weapon[11]
Dennis Kozlowski		Served a 6 1/2 year sentence	Former CEO of Tyco International[12]
Alan Hevesi		Paroled after serving 20 months[13]	Former Comptroller of the State of New York, convicted of taking bribes in return for investing in firms for the New York State Retirement Fund
Ja Rule		Served an 8 month sentence	Rapper and actor that has sold over 40 million records worldwide. In July 2007, Ja Rule was arrested for gun and drug possession charges.