Woodbourne Correctional Facility

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Status open Capacity 849 Security class medium		Phone +1 845-434-7730 Opened 1933

Location 99 Prison RoadWoodbourne, New York Managed by New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Address 99 Prison Road, Woodbourne, NY 12788, USA District New York State Department Of Correctional Services School District Similar Downstate Correctio Library, Federal Correctio Institute, Sullivan County Jail, Orange County Correctio, Pike County Correctio

Woodbourne Correctional Facility is a medium security men's prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in Woodbourne, New York of Sullivan County. It is located on the same tract of land as maximum security Sullivan Correctional Facility.

The prison opened in 1933, designed by Alfred Hopkins, an estate architect with a sideline in prisons such as Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Hopkins also designed Wallkill Correctional Facility and Coxsackie Correctional Facility for the state.

Notable inmates

Juvenile murderer Willie Bosket, serving three consecutive sentences of 25 years to life for offenses committed while in the Shawangunk Correctional Facility and at Woodbourne. He is housed in a specially-constructed plexiglass-lined cell in complete isolation. He is no longer housed at Woodbourne prison.

Rapper Shyne of New York City served a 10-year sentence in The Woodbourne Facility after being convicted of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment

References

Woodbourne Correctional Facility Wikipedia

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