Upstate Correctional Facility is a maximum security state prison for men in Franklin County, New York, US. The prison, in the Town of Malone, was the first New York State prison built as a supermax.
History
Upstate, the 70th state prison to open in New York State, had a cost of $180 million (equivalent to $ million in ). Prisoners were scheduled to arrive in July 1988. It was scheduled to open to have 370 prison guards and 1,500 prisoners, with two prisoners per cell. ==Facility==
Facility
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 by and have plexiglas windows. The cells are larger than others in the New York state prison system. ==Notable Inmates==