Status Operational Opened 1977 | Warden Monica Recktenwald | |
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Location Town of Mount Hope, Orange County,
near Otisville, New York Security class Medium-security (with minimum-security prison camp) Population 1,050 (115 in prison camp) Managed by Federal Bureau of Prisons | ||
The Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville (FCI Otisville) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates near Otisville, New York. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. It also includes a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders.
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FCI Otisville is located in southeastern New York State, near the Pennsylvania and New Jersey borders, and 70 miles northwest of New York City. It is a quarter mile from the Otisville Correctional Facility, a medium-security state prison.
Notable incidents
August 11, 2009, Hope Spinato, a former correction officer assigned to FCI Otisville, was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to aiding and assisting an inmate serving a 17-year drug trafficking sentence briefly escape from the facility. An FBI investigation found that Spinato became involved in a relationship with the inmate, whom the Bureau of Prisons did not identify, and drove the inmate out of the facility to her home and back on several occasions.
In popular culture
George Jung, the basis for the 2001 film Blow, served time at FCI Otisville, but has since been transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey.
In the Spike Lee film 25th Hour, the protagonist Montgomery "Monty" Brogan spends his final day commiserating with friends and family before reporting to Otisville for a seven-year sentence.
In the opening of the 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to the 1987 film Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, is released after serving an eight-year sentence for insider trading and securities fraud for his actions as a corporate raider in the first movie. Although the scene was actually shot at Sing Sing state prison, Gekko mentions in the film that he served his sentence at FCI Otisville.
In the Fox sitcom The Mindy Project, Morgan Tookers, played by Ike Barinholtz, is a nurse at Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling)'s obstetric practice. As a teenager, he was incarcerated in Otisville prison for motor vehicle theft. He was hired to replace the former nurse Beverly after he fixes Mindy's broken nose. He has a tattoo across his abdomen that reads "No More Stealing Cars".
Notable inmates (current and former)
†The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 eliminated parole for federal inmates. However, inmates sentenced for offenses committed prior to 1987 are eligible for parole consideration.