Wallkill Correctional Facility
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The Wallkill Correctional Facility is a medium security prison
in New York
state in the USA. The prison is located just north of the hamlet of Wallkill
in the Shawangunk
in Ulster County, New York
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Box G
Wallkill, New York 12589-0286
(845) 895-2021 (Ulster County)
The Prison was built in the 1930's and was once only to house "Good Behavior/White Collar Inmates. Now due to changing times the Inmate population has changed and first time offenders now begin and end their sentences are Wallkill C.F. The Prison originally was called the Prison without a Wall, but in the 21st century a wall of chain link fencing and razor wire was constructed around the facility. It is a free movement facility that has a petting zoo on the weekends.
Prison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
state in the USA. The prison is located just north of the hamlet of Wallkill
Wallkill, Ulster County, New York
Wallkill is a hamlet , generally identified as coterminous with ZIP code 12589, telephone exchange 895 in the 845 area code and most of the Wallkill Central School District located mostly in the eastern half of the Town of Shawangunk, Ulster County, New York but partly spilling over into adjacent...
in the Shawangunk
Shawangunk, New York
Shawangunk is a town in southwestern Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 12,022 at the 2000 census. Like the neighboring mountain range, for which it is named, it is pronounced either as the Munsee Lenape, Shawangunk , or as the colonial Shongum by local residents...
in Ulster County, New York
Ulster County, New York
Ulster County is a county located in the state of New York, USA. It sits in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 182,493. Recent population estimates completed by the United States Census Bureau for the 12-month period ending July 1 are at...
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Address
Wallkill Correctional FacilityBox G
Wallkill, New York 12589-0286
(845) 895-2021 (Ulster County)
The Prison was built in the 1930's and was once only to house "Good Behavior/White Collar Inmates. Now due to changing times the Inmate population has changed and first time offenders now begin and end their sentences are Wallkill C.F. The Prison originally was called the Prison without a Wall, but in the 21st century a wall of chain link fencing and razor wire was constructed around the facility. It is a free movement facility that has a petting zoo on the weekends.