Otisville Correctional Facility

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Otisville Correctional Facility is a medium-security state prison located in Orange County, New York, USA. Its location in Otisville facilitates transfers to the federal system prison (Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville), also in Otisville a quarter mile away. Both are in the Town of Mount Hope.

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The site was used as a tuberculosis sanitarium (1906 - 1955), a Division of Youth facility (Otisville Training Facility, up to 1972), and briefly a drug treatment center, before it became a state prison.

Due to the length of the prison fence and rough terrain, exterior guards are mounted on horses.

A sawmill for lumber and maple syrup production were soon introduced for prisoner work.

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