The Greene Correctional Facility is a state prison for men located in Coxsackie,

Greene County, New York Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,931. Its county seat is Catskill. The county's name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The c ...

, owned and operated 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 ...

. The facility opened in 1989 and holds 1582 inmates at medium security, which includes 171 held in a maximum security unit. Greene is adjacent to the state's

Coxsackie Correctional Facility Coxsackie Correctional Facility is a maximum security state prison in Coxsackie, Greene County, New York. It currently houses approximately 900 inmates. It is classified as a maximum security general confinement facility and detention center fo ...

, originally built in 1935. Several incarcerated individuals have been killed by other inmates while in custody at this facility. Inmates at this facility are also responsible for numerous assaults on staff. Additionally, it was revealed that in 2016, prison guards instigated an attack on an inmate and covered it up.

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