United States · NY
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Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
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This facility scores 1. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 1 points below national average.
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nd white. Over crosswords, Susan told me about growing up as a Navy brat, then going on to attend Smith College and eventually getting into drinking. By the time I met her in the Tompkins County Jail in 2011, she’d racked up a long, long string of DWIs. More than anything else, she said, she wanted help. She seemed so earnest and calm and full of acceptance — all rare traits in the county jail,
muggled in — then came back shouting. They tore through everything we owned, tossing our photos and letters from home all over the floor, like they meant nothing. I’d been in the Tompkins County Jail on a drug charge for seven months by then, so I’d seen searches before, but this felt different. This article was published in partnership with NBC News . The guards crammed us all into a grimy
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World Prisons. (2026). Tompkins County Jail. Retrieved July 26, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/tompkins-county-jail
"Tompkins County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed July 26, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/tompkins-county-jail.
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author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Tompkins County Jail},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/tompkins-county-jail},
urldate = {2026-07-26}
}