Woodbourne Correctional Facility is a medium security men's prison operated by the

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Woodbourne, New York Woodbourne is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the town of Fallsburg in Sullivan County, New York, United States. Woodbourne is bordered by the town of Neversink, the hamlet of Grahamsville, the hamlet of Loch Sheldrake, the hamlet of ...

of Sullivan County. It is located on the same tract of land as maximum security Sullivan Correctional Facility. The prison opened in 1933, designed by

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, an estate architect with a sideline in prisons such as

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in Pennsylvania. Hopkins also designed Wallkill Correctional Facility and

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for the state.

Notable inmates

*Juvenile murderer

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, serving three consecutive sentences of 25 years to life for offenses committed while in the

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and at Woodbourne. Bosket was housed in a specially-constructed plexiglass-lined cell in complete isolation but is no longer at Woodbourne. *Rapper

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of Brooklyn served part of a 10-year sentence in Woodbourne, after being convicted of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment * Eric Smith, serving 9 years to life for the murder of Derrick Robie; released in 2022. COVID-19 As reported b
''The SullivanTimes''
142 inmates tested positive for

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as of December 24, 2020. All the confirmed positives occurred during December. Widespread testing of the prison population began on November 9, 2020. From March through November, the New York State Department of Corrections & Community Supervision showed zero cases of COVID-19 at Woodbourne.

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