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| Location | 9000 Old River Road Marcy, New York |
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| Status | open |
| Security class | medium |
| Capacity | 1522 |
| Opened | 1989 |
| Managed by | New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Marcy Correctional Facility is a men's medium-security state prison in Marcy Town, Oneida County, New York.[1]
Complex and facilities
[edit]Marcy specializes in providing alcohol and drug treatment programs. All of Marcy is on one level; the lack of stairs improves accessibility for disabled prisoners. It also has vocational programs for sanitation, bricklaying, and electrical repair. It has a full-sized football field surrounded by a track. The biggest room at the prison is the basketball court, also used as a presentation space.
The prison is located across the street from the Central New York Psychiatric Center, where incarcerated prisoners from state and local jurisdictions can be held and treated, and the Mid-State Correctional Facility. A separate medium security housing unit, the Residential Mental Health Unit (RMHU), is located within Marcy. The RMHU unit houses inmates with lengthy disciplinary sanctions who also suffer with severe mental health issues. The RMHU unit has its own fence that separates it from the rest of the facility. Midstate and Marcy are on opposite sides of the highway, and as both are set back from the road, it is easily 1⁄4 mile (0.25 miles (0.40 km)) between the two prisons' gates. The Psychiatric Center houses sex offenders civilly committed.[2]
Abuse of inmates
[edit]Marcy was the subject of an October 2022 Correctional Association of New York oversight report released in 2023 that included a two-day monitoring visit and 117 interviews with inmates. Findings included poor food quality, a lack of hygienic goods, poor healthcare amenities due to staffing vacancies, racialized verbal and physical abuse against Black inmates, widespread violence against inmates by staff, and an unresponsive grievance process.[3]
On December 9, 2024, corrections officers fatally brutalized Robert Brooks while he was handcuffed in a medical examination room.[4] The killing of Brooks prompted renewed scrutiny and investigations over Marcy Correctional Facility's history of abuse by staff.[5]
Notable inmates
[edit]- Luchiano Lewis - Convicted for nine years to life in prison for the murder of Tessa Majors, along with his friend Rashaun Weaver.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Marcy town, NY" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 2 (PDF p. 3/3). Retrieved 2024-12-31.
Marcy Corr Faclty
"Facilities List". NYS DOC. Archived from the original on 21 November 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2016. - ^ Dowty, Douglass (November 16, 2014). "Little-known NY law keeps worst sex offenders off the streets and out of sight - possibly forever". Syracuse Post-Standard. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ^ "CANY Releases Report on Marcy Correctional Facility". Correctional Association of New York. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ Haught, J. Staas. "Guards beat inmate to death; what we know about Marcy Correctional Facility incident". North Jersey Media Group. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ Ventura, Juliann (2024-12-28). "FBI investigating killing of inmate after assault by correctional officers". The Hill. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ https://nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov/ [bare URL]
External links
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Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female) or ♂♀ (unisex) | |
