Wende Correctional Facility

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Status open Capacity 961		Phone +1 716-937-4000 Security class maximum
Location 3040 Wende Road Alden, New York Managed by New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Address 3040 Wende Rd, Alden, NY 14004, USA District New York State Department Of Correctional Services School District Opened 1923 (as county jail); 1983 (as state prison) Similar Ogdensburg Correctional Facility, Shawangunk Correctional Facility, Central New York Psychiatri, The Dakota, Mohawk Valley Psychiatri

Wende Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison located in Town of Alden in Erie County, New York. The prison is named for this region of Alden. The prison was formerly the site of a county jail operated by Erie County, New York and sold to the state to further its need for a maximum security state prison. The Erie County Correctional Facility was built adjacent to Wende.

Notable inmates

Jack Abbott - criminal and author. He committed suicide at Wende in 2002.

Jimmy Burke - mastermind of the Lufthansa Heist. Burke was imprisoned in Wende until his death in 1996.

Mark David Chapman - the killer of former Beatles member John Lennon. Chapman was transferred from the Attica Correctional Facility to Wende on May 15, 2012.

Pavle Stanimirovic - YACS. Crime Group, high ranking member a criminal, turned writer, and criminal authority was imprisoned in Wende 1996. LakeVeiw Shock camp Transfered to Federal MCC Manhattan NYC.1996-1997.

Robert Chambers - the "Preppie Killer." He was imprisoned in Wende in 2008 and remains there.

References

Wende Correctional Facility Wikipedia

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