Attica Correctional Facility

Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison housing males convicted of felonies who are 21 years of age or older committed directly by the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eight judicial districts of New York . It also receives felons 16 years of age and older by transfer from the Elmira Reception Center or other institutions.

A 1926 report of the Crime Commission of New York's Sub-Commission on Penal Institutions stated that the state's prisons were operating at 120% of capacity. To alleviate the overcrowding, the report recommended increasing the capacity of the four existing prisons to 2,000 inmates and constructing a new prison. A law of 1927 (Chapter 56) appropriated $50,000 for acquisition of a site for the new prison. Construction began in Attica, Wyoming County, in 1929 with a $3.5 million appropriation from the sale of bonds.

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