:Woodbourne Correctional Facility

{{Short description|Medium-security state prison, located in New York, US}}

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| prison_name = Woodbourne Correctional Facility

| image = Image:Woodbourne Jail.JPG

| location = 99 Prison Road
Woodbourne, New York

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| status = operational

| classification = medium

| capacity = 849

| opened = 1933

| closed =

| managed_by = New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

| director =

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Woodbourne Correctional Facility is a medium security men's prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in Woodbourne in Sullivan County, New York. 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.{{cite book|last1=Joseph F.|first1=Spillane|title=Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform|date=9 May 2014|publisher=JHU Press|page=48|isbn=9781421413228|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCZ8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|access-date=3 September 2016}}

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. Bosket was housed in a specially-constructed plexiglass-lined cell in complete isolation but is no longer at Woodbourne.{{cite web |title=All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence |url=http://booknotes.org/Watch/70322-1/Fox%2BButterfield.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117062631/http://booknotes.org/Watch/70322-1/Fox%2BButterfield.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 November 2010 |website=Booknotes |access-date=15 September 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Judge |first1=Phoebe |title=Willie Bosket |url=https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-86-willie-bosket |website=This is Criminal}}
Rapper Shyne of Brooklyn served part of a 10-year sentence in Woodbourne, after being convicted of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment.
Eric Smith, serving 9 years to life for the murder of Derrick Robie; released in 2022.

References

External links

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Category:Prisons in New York (state)

Category:Fallsburg, New York

Category:1933 establishments in New York (state)