The Buffalo Correctional Facility was a minimum security

prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ...

for males in

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, United States. The prison was located in town of Alden, east of the

Buffalo Buffalo most commonly refers to: * True buffalo or Bubalina, a subtribe of wild cattle, including most "Old World" buffalo, such as water buffalo * Bison, a genus of wild cattle, including the American buffalo * Buffalo, New York, a city in the n ...

, adjacent to the

Wende Correctional Facility Wende Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison located in the town of Alden in Erie County, New York, east of Buffalo. The prison is named for this region of Alden. The prison was formerly the site of an Erie County jail and was sold t ...

. As of 2012, the facility has been closed by the

New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NYSDOCCS) is the department of the Government of New York (state), New York State government that administers the state prison and parole system, including List of New York s ...

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