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Five Points Correctional Facility

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Status
  
open

Phone
  
+1 607-869-5111

Opened
  
2000

Security class
  
maximum

Capacity
  
1,550

Location
  
6600 State Route 96Romulus, New York

Address
  
6600 New York 96, Romulus, NY 14541, USA

Hours
  
Closed today SundayClosedMonday7AM–4PMTuesday7AM–4PMWednesday7AM–4PMThursday7AM–4PMFriday7AM–4PMSaturdayClosed

District
  
New York State Department Of Correctional Services School District

Similar
  
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Five Points Correctional Facility (FPCF) is a maximum security men's prison located in Romulus, NY and operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

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History

The prison was built in 2000 with a capacity of 1,500 inmates, as well as a Special Housing Unit (SHU) for up to 50 inmates in disciplinary confinement. As of 2008, 71% of the inmates were convicted of a violent crime, including serial killer Lemuel Smith, and 16% of the inmates were being treated for mental health issues. FPCF's academic courses included Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Pre-General Equivalency Diploma (Pre-GED), and General Equivalency Diploma (GED). Vocational courses included appliance repair, building maintenance, cabinet making, millworking, custodial maintenance, general business, electrical trades, horticulture/ agriculture, small engine repair, masonry, and plumbing/heating. The library contained approximately 3,000 books and periodicals.

Notable inmates

  • Willie Bosket - Adult repeat offender who, in 1978, received the maximum 5-year sentence for multiple murder as a (fifteen year old) juvenile, causing New York to become the first state to change its laws so that juveniles as young as 13 could be tried as an adult for murder.
  • Lemuel Smith - Serial killer and rapist. Convicted of killing six people between 1958 and 1981, including the first ever murder (1981) of an on-duty female corrections officer by an inmate at a prison.
  • David Sweat - Transferred here after 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.
  • References

    Five Points Correctional Facility Wikipedia