Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services

New York State Department of Correctional Services

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision or NYSDOCCS is the agency of New York State responsible for the care, confinement, and rehabilitation of approximately 63,000 inmates at 71 correctional facilities funded by the State of New York. The department employs...

 in the town of Ossining, New York

Ossining (town), New York

Ossining is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 37,674 at the 2010 census. It contains two villages, the Village of Ossining and part of Briarcliff Manor, the rest of which is located in the Town of Mount Pleasant....

. It is located about 30 miles north of New York City on the bank of the Hudson River.

Ossining's former name, "Sing Sing," was derived from the name of a Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 tribe, "Sinck Sinck" (or "Sint Sinck"), from whom the land was purchased in 1685.

The Sing Sing prison confines about 1,700 prisoners.
There are plans to convert the original 1825 cell block into a museum.
The prison property is bisected by railroad tracks.