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Elmira Correctional Facility
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Elmira Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Chemung County, New York. Rated capacity: 1,856. Reported population: 1,800. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Elmira Correctional Facility, also known as "The Hill", is a maximum security state prison located in Chemung County, in the City of Elmira in the US state of New York. It is operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. A supermax prison, Southport Correctional Facility, was located 2 miles (3.2 km) away from Elmira. Southport closed in 2022. The facility was founded in 1876 as the Elmira Reformatory and run by its controversial superintendent Zebulon Brockway.
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Capacity
1,856
Current population
1,800
Occupancy
97%
Year opened
1876
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1876
Region
New York
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Chester H. McLaughlin? · charlatan
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 97% · peers avg: 93% (+5%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1856 · peers avg: 547 (+239%)
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- New York State DOCCS â facility directory — State of New York
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5366805)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Elmira Correctional Facility. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/elmira-correctional-facility
Chicago
"Elmira Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/elmira-correctional-facility.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-elmira-correctional-facilit,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Elmira Correctional Facility},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/elmira-correctional-facility},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}