NYSDOC – Fishkill Correctional Facility

NYSDOC – Fishkill Correctional Facility basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 845-831-4800

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Fishkill Correctional Facility located at 18 Strack Dr in Beacon, NY are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

Fishkill Correctional Facility is a multi-security level prison in New York, United States. The prison is located in both the Town of Fishkill and the City of Beacon in Dutchess County. Fishkill was constructed in 1896. It began as the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

As a minimum security facility, it houses both inmates that work outside the facility on behalf of the prison and inmates that are in the work release temporary release program. As a medium security facility, it houses general population and Office of Mental Health inmates. As a maximum security facility, it houses inmates under disciplinary segregation in the S-Block Special Housing Unit. Fishkill CF also houses the Regional Medical Unit for Southern New York's prisons.

In 1998, a maximum security S-Block Special Housing Unit was added to the facility to hold 200 maximum security inmates that are under disciplinary segregation

Fishkill houses approximately 1,800 inmates, operates as the Regional Medical Unit for southern New York's prisons and offers a wide range of educational programs including Pre-General 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, Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management through a partnership between Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison and Nyack College. Available is the only Commercial Arts Program in a New York State prison. The facility also provides Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment (ASAT), Sex Offender Treatment, and various vocational programs.

The facility also houses the Fishkill Specialty Steel division of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's Corcraft Industries. Fishkill Specialty Steel gives inmate real-world experience in welding and metal fabrication. The programs produce custom sheet metal products, classroom desks and various other items made from steel that is used in schools across the state, prisons, mental health facilities, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York City Department of Sanitation.

Fishkill is one of six prisons that incorporate the Puppies Behind Bars program. Prison inmates raise puppies to be guide dogs for the blind, disabled children and adults, and fully trained service dogs for wounded soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Oprah Winfrey filmed a segment at Fishkill Correctional Facility on the prison's Puppies Behind Bars program.

The Corcraft program is a program that employs inmates to manufacture beds, chairs and computer furniture for sale to state and local governments. They also fabricate to-order heavy gauge specialty items such as security doors and windows for correctional and psychiatric institutions.

NYSDOC – Fishkill Correctional Facility – Handbook for Families of Inmates

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NYSDOC – Fishkill Correctional Facility – Visitation

VISITING DAYS & HOURS
8:20 AM-3:00 PM Weekends and Holidays – Latest Arrival Time 2:15 PM 
RMU 8:30AM to 2:00PM Weekends and Holidays for non-ambulatory inmates. Latest Arrival Time 1:00PM 

SPECIAL HOUSING UNIT VISITING DAYS & HOURS (Inmates in SHU – 1 visit within 7 day period)
RMU 8:30AM to 2:00PM Weekends and Holidays Latest Arrival Time 1:00PM 
SHU 5:00PM to 9:00PM Saturdays Only 
PIMS Level 1,2 5:00PM to 9:00PM Saturdays Only 
PIMS Level 3 5:00PM to 9:00PM Saturdays 10:00AM to 2:00PM Sundays 
SHU/Long-term Keeplock schedule begins on a Saturday and ends on a Friday

NUMBER OF ALLOWABLE VISITS
Three adults, no children/Two adults with children/Children under 16 do not count toward two visit limit

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF VISITORS PER VISIT/DAY (How many people at a visiting table at one time)
Three adults, unlimited number of children under 18 years of age/ Unlimited. Can request extra visitors under special circumstances (out of state visitors, etc.)