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Upstate Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Franklin County, New York. Rated capacity: 1,500. Reported population: 1,221. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
1,500
Current population
1,221
Occupancy
81%
Year opened
1998
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Population held
male
Opened
1998
Region
New York
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
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Solitary Our running joke: ‘You may go crazy in here, but at least you won’t get corona.’ Filed 10:00 p.m. EDT 05.07.2020 Wesley Williams is a writer incarcerated at Upstate Correctional Facility in New York. Courtesy of Emily Nonko Wesley Williams is a writer incarcerated at Upstate Correctional Facility in New York. Courtesy of Emily Nonko T o listen to my governor, Andrew Cuomo, hold his daily
h a novel idea: build an entire supermax prison of double cells to house disruptive inmates. With showers in the corners of the cell and recreation cages in the back, cellmates at Upstate Correctional Facility are almost never separate from one another. Read how two inmates went into a cell at Upstate, and only one came out alive. Solitary Confinement, Punished For Life, New York Times, August
, which ended when one strangled the other. After realizing what he had done, he screamed for the guards’ help. The desire to be separated from cellmates can be so strong that at Upstate Correctional Facility in New York, where all but ten of the prison’s 600 solitary cells are double cells, inmates may fake medical and mental-health crises in hopes of being removed, according to reentry
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World Prisons. (2026). Upstate Correctional Facility. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/upstate-correctional-facility
"Upstate Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/upstate-correctional-facility.
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