The Wallkill Correctional Facility is a medium security
prison
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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 collegiate campus with no surrounding wall or fence. The architect was
Alfred Hopkins, an east-coast estate architect with a sideline in prisons such as
Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary
The Federal Correctional Institution, Lewisburg (FCI Lewisburg) is a medium-security United States federal prison in Kelly Township, Pennsylvania, for male inmates. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States ...
in Pennsylvania. Connected three-story English Gothic buildings of gray stone "self-consciously embraced an idealistic notion of the rural idyll and an old-fashioned sense of place". Hopkins also designed
Woodbourne Correctional Facility and
Coxsackie Correctional Facility for the state.
Inmate population
Wallkill was once only used to house "Good Behavior/White Collar" inmates. Due to changing times, the inmate population has changed and first-time offenders now begin and end their sentences at Wallkill CF. The one-time "Prison without a Wall," is no more—in the 21st century chain-link fencing and razor wire was constructed around the perimeter.
On-premise activities
The facility has a long-running optical laboratory to grind lenses and produce eyeglasses. Inmates may also learn to serve retired
racehorse
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s through the
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation
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History
Two years a ...
's Second Chances program.
Wallkill's grounds contain the historic
Walstein Childs House, circa 1763. The state's
Shawangunk Correctional Facility is also nearby.
References
External links
N.Y. prison information
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ttp://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/docs2day/wallkill.html correctionhistory.org historical essay on Wallkill
Prisons in New York (state)
Economy of Ulster County, New York
Shawangunk, New York
1933 establishments in New York (state)
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