Otisville Correctional Facility
Encyclopedia
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
.
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
, and in 2009, was listed by Forbes magazine as the 10th "cushiest
" prison in the United States. 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).
Bernard Madoff
had requested to be imprisoned at the federal prison at Otisville. His request was denied on July 6, 2009.
Prison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
located in Orange County
Orange County, New York
Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located at the northern reaches of the New York metropolitan area. The county sits in the state's scenic Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, USA. Its location in Otisville facilitates transfers to the federal system prison (Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville
Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville
The Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville is located in Orange County, New York, USA. The federal prison, which opened in 1977, is a medium security facility, located in the Town of Mount Hope a quarter mile from the Otisville Correctional Facility, a New York medium security prison, thus...
), also in Otisville a quarter mile away. Both are in the Town of Mount Hope
Mount Hope, New York
Mount Hope is a town in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 6,639 at the 2000 census.The Town of Mount Hope is in the northwestern part of the county, west of Middletown...
.
History
The site was used as a tuberculosisTuberculosis
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
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
Sawmill
A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.-Sawmill process:A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end....
for lumber and maple syrup
Maple syrup
Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species such as the bigleaf maple. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter; the starch is then...
production were soon introduced for prisoner
Prisoner
A prisoner is someone incarcerated in a prison, jail or similar facility.Prisoner or The Prisoner may also refer to:* Prisoner of war, a soldier in wartime, held as by an enemy* Political prisoner, someone held in prison for their ideology...
work.
Otisville is commonly regarded as a haven for white-collar criminals
White-collar crime
Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime has been defined by Edwin Sutherland as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" . Sutherland was a proponent of Symbolic Interactionism, and believed that criminal behavior was...
, and in 2009, was listed by Forbes magazine as the 10th "cushiest
Club Fed
In North American English, Club Fed is a term that describes a prison whose accommodations are less severe than many other prisons. The term is a pun on the "Club Med" chain of all-inclusive resorts.-Differential treatment for white-collar offenders:...
" prison in the United States. Both the state and federal prisons presently house "an unusually high percentage of Jewish
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
inmates", and there exist special facilities for Jewish prisoners (including an on-site rabbi
Rabbi
In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...
and a kosher kitchen).
Bernard Madoff
Bernard Madoff
Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff is a former American businessman, stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered to be the largest financial fraud in U.S...
had requested to be imprisoned at the federal prison at Otisville. His request was denied on July 6, 2009.