NYSDOC – Upstate Correctional Facility

NYSDOC – Upstate 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: 518-483-6997

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Upstate Correctional Facility located at 309 Bare Hill Rd in Malone, 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.

Upstate Correctional Facility is a maximum security state prison for men in Franklin County, New York, United States. The prison, in the Town of Malone, was the first New York State prison built as a supermax.

Upstate C.F. was established in 1998 to house special prisoners with a history of assaultive behavior. Programs available to the prisoners are based on the acceptance of the established rules and other behavior indicating a degree of social conformity. Approximately 350 corrections officers, aided by more than 1000 remote cameras, supervise about 1300 prisoners.

Upstate is also a cadre facility. Cadre is the name of the program in which inmates are brought in to work around the prison grounds. The Cadre program holds approximately 300 inmates. The other 1000 inmates are in the SHU, special housing unit. The SHU is more commonly known as the box.

The prison, two stories tall, was initially designed with having two prisoners in one cell. The prison cells were pre-fabricated and brought to the prison construction site for assembly into the building. The prison was to have 800 security cameras. The prison cells are by 8.5 feet by 14 feet and have Plexiglas windows. The cells are larger than others in the New York state prison system.

NYSDOC – Upstate Correctional Facility – Handbook for Families of Inmates

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visitation Info

NYSDOC – Upstate Correctional Facility – Visitation

VISITING DAYS & HOURS
8:30 AM to 2:30 PM Weekends and Holidays – Latest Arrival Time 2:00 PM. 

SPECIAL HOUSING UNIT VISITING DAYS & HOURS (Inmates in SHU – 1 visit within 7 day period)
9:00AM to 3:00PM Weekends and Holidays – Latest Arrival Time 
2:30PM SHU/Long Term Keeplock Schedule: Sunday through Saturday  

NUMBER OF ALLOWABLE VISITS
Unlimited number of visits during visiting hours.
PIMS Level 3, two non-legal visits per week

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF VISITORS PER VISIT/DAY (How many people at a visiting table at one time)
Four/Unlimited 
SHU: Four/Determined by the number of people who show up for the one visit.