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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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.
Otisville is commonly regarded as a haven for white-collar criminals,[1] and in 2009, was listed by Forbes magazine as the 10th "cushiest" prison in the United States.[2] Both the state and federal prisons presently house "an unusually high percentage of Jewish inmates", and there exist special facilities for Jewish prisoners (including an on-site rabbi and a kosher kitchen).[3]
Bernard Madoff had requested to be imprisoned at the federal prison at Otisville. His request was denied on July 6, 2009.[4]
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Coordinates: 41°29′46″N 74°31′25″W / 41.49611°N 74.52361°W
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