Shawangunk Correctional Facility is a maximum security

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for males located in the Town of Shawangunk,

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in the United States. The facility lies just outside the Ulster County hamlet of Wallkill, whose post office serves it.

History

The prison was constructed in 1983 to expand the maximum-security capabilities of the state prison system and is located near the existing

Wallkill Correctional Facility The Wallkill Correctional Facility is a medium security prison in New York state in the United States. The prison is located just north of the hamlet of Wallkill, in the Town of Shawangunk. History The prison opened in 1933, in the form of a c ...

, a medium security prison. The co-location was designed so that services by both facilities could be shared, thus reducing the costs of each prison. The new prison opened in 1985 and was fully operational by 1986. Occupational training is provided in the category of building maintenance with specific training in carpentry, electricity and plumbing.

Notable inmates

*Santino Boderick, member of

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, sentenced in 2017 to 117.5-130 years after being convicted of gang-related violence, including attempted murder, that took place in

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between January 2013 and December 2014. * Larry Davis, tried for the attempted murder of a police officer and acquitted by pleading self-defense; later convicted in an unrelated murder of a drug dealer and sentenced to 25 years-to-life; died in prison in a stabbing by a fellow inmate. * Robert Chambers, who pled guilty to the manslaughter of

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and served a sentence of 15 years; after release he was convicted of drug crimes, for which he eventually received a new sentence of 19 years. Chambers was released from the facility in July 2023. * David Gilbert, member of the radical

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; sentenced in 1983 to 75 years-to-life (later commuted to 40-to-life) on three counts of felony murder in the 1981 Brinks robbery. Paroled, 2021.

References

External links

New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
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