The Fishkill Fishing Facility is a double security prison in New York, USA. The prison is located in Fishkill Town and Beacon Town in Dutchess County. Fishkill was built in 1896. It started as the Matteawan State Hospital for Criminal Insan.
As a minimum security facility, the house accommodates both inmates working outside the facility on behalf of prisons and inmates present in the work releasing a temporary release program. As a medium-sized security facility, this home accommodates the general population and inmates of Mental Health. As a maximum security facility, this home accommodates prisoners under the discipline segregation in the S-Block Special Housing Unit.
Fishkill is also home to the Regional Medical Unit for Southern New York jails.
In 1998 the prison of a special security S-Block maximum housing unit was added to the facility to detain 200 maximum security prisoners who were under disciplined segregation.
Video Fishkill Correctional Facility
History
The facility is located on land originally purchased by the state government of New York to build and operate the State Hospital of Matteawan for Criminal Insiders in 1892. Several original buildings are used now in Fishkill. Matteawan ceased operations in 1977 and the facility was converted into its current use as a medium security prison for men.
Maps Fishkill Correctional Facility
Today's usage
Fishkill houses approximately 1800 inmates, operates as a Regional Medical Unit for Southern New York prisons and offers a variety of educational programs including Pre-Common Equivalency Diploma (Pre-GED), General Equivalency Diploma (GED), English as a Second Language (ESL), Associates of Arts in Liberal Arts through the Bard Prison Initiative, a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Management through a partnership between Hudson Links for Higher Education in Prison and Nyack College. Available only Commercial Arts Program at New York State jail. Also the facility provides Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment (ASAT) and various vocational programs.
The facility also houses the Fishkill Specialty Steel division of the Correction Industries Correction and Control Department. Fishkill Specialty Steel provides real-world experience on welding and metal fabrication. The program produces specialty metal sheet products, class desks and other steel articles used in schools across the state, prisons, mental health facilities, the Metropolitan Transport Authority and the New York City Sanitation Department.
Inmatic demographics
In 2013 the prisoners' inmates population consists of;
- 1,650 people in jail; capacity 1,845
- 54% black; 27% Latino; 18% white
- 22% below 30; 26% 50; 8% 60
- Median age: 42.5
- Median minimum sentence: 102 months
- 71% sentenced for violent crime
- 12% punished for drug offenses
- Median time in Fishkill 13 months
- Median time in DOCCS 11 years
Therapeutic program
Fishkill is one of six prisons that combine Barpies Behind Bars program. Prison inmates raise puppies to serve as guiding dogs for the blind, handicapped and adults, and trained service dogs for wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Oprah Winfrey filmed a segment at Fishkill Prison Facility at the Puppies Behind Bar program in prison.
The Corcraft program is a program that employs inmates to produce beds, chairs and computer furniture for sale to state and local governments. They also fabricated to order heavy-duty items such as security doors and windows for penitentiary and psychiatric institutions.
Leading Prisoner
- George Metesky
- Daniel Genis
- Harry Kendall Melt
- Robert George Irwin
- Izola Curry
- Robert F. Garrow
- Paul Geidel
- Robert Golub
- Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan
See also
- Matteawan State Hospital for Criminal Disorders
References
External links
- The History of Fishkill Fixing Facilities
- NY prison information
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments