Otisville Correctional Facility is a medium-security state prison located in Orange County, New York, USA. Its location in Otisville facilitates transfers to the federal system prison (Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville), also in Otisville a quarter mile away. Both are in the Town of Mount Hope.
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History
The site was used as a tuberculosis sanitarium (1906 - 1955), a Division of Youth facility (Otisville Training Facility, up to 1972), and briefly a drug treatment center, before it became a state prison.
Due to the length of the prison fence and rough terrain, exterior guards are mounted on horses.
A sawmill for lumber and maple syrup production were soon introduced for prisoner work.
The prison presently houses "an unusually high percentage of Jewish inmates," and Bernard Madoff had his request to be imprisoned there denied on July 6, 2009.[1]
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References
- ^ The Jewish Chronicle "Madoff's 'Jewish jail' plea denied by judge," by Jessica Elgot (July 6th, 2009 - retrieved on July 6th, 2009).
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