Wallkill Correctional Facility
Medium-security state prison, located in New York, US From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wallkill Correctional Facility is a medium security prison in New York state in the United States. The prison is located just north of the hamlet of Wallkill, in the Town of Shawangunk.
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| Location | 50 Mc Kendrick Road Wallkill, New York |
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| Status | operational |
| Security class | medium |
| Capacity | 606 |
| Opened | 1933 |
| Managed by | New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
History
The prison opened in 1933, in the form of a collegiate campus with no surrounding wall or fence. The architect was Alfred Hopkins, an east-coast estate architect with a sideline in prisons such as Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Connected three-story English Gothic buildings of gray stone "self-consciously embraced an idealistic notion of the rural idyll and an old-fashioned sense of place".[1] Hopkins also designed Woodbourne Correctional Facility and Coxsackie Correctional Facility for the state.
Inmate population
Wallkill was once only used to house "Good Behavior/White Collar" inmates. Due to changing times, the inmate population has changed and first-time offenders now begin and end their sentences at Wallkill CF. The one-time "Prison without a Wall," is no more—in the 21st century chain-link fencing and razor wire was constructed around the perimeter.
On-premise activities
The facility has a long-running optical laboratory to grind lenses and produce eyeglasses. Inmates may also learn to serve retired racehorses through the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation's Second Chances program.[2][3]
Wallkill's grounds contain the historic Walstein Childs House, circa 1763. The state's Shawangunk Correctional Facility is also nearby.
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