The Erie County Holding Center in Buffalo, New York

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 is a pre-trial, maximum security, detention facility that serves Erie County

Erie County, New York

Erie County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 919,040. The county seat is Buffalo. The county's name comes from Lake Erie, which in turn comes from the Erie tribe of American Indians who lived south and east of the lake before 1654.Erie...

. Capable of housing 680 inmate

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s, it is the second largest detention facility in New York State outside of New York City

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. Inmate "Over-flow" is housed at the Holding Center Annex at the Erie County Correctional Facility. The Jail Management Division of the Erie County Sheriff's Office conducts regularly scheduled tours of the facility for High School

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 and College

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 student groups, Police Academy

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 classes, and groups of "At risk" teens. According to a professor

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 at University at Buffalo Law School

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, "Erie County continues to operate the Holding Center with indifference to the basic medical needs of inmates."

Complaints

The suicide rate at the Holding Center has brought it unwanted attention. The Erie County Prisoners Rights Coalition demonstrates in front of the Center each Wednesday.