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- It serves both as a reception center for inmate intake/classification and as a high-security prison, accommodating approximately 1800 inmates.
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The transfer of prisoners continued without incident until July 15, when a train carrying 833 Confederate POWs and 128 Union guards bound for Elmira collided with a coal train coming from the opposite direction. 49 POWs and 17 guards were killed with many more seriously wounded. [3]
Elmira Correctional Facility, also known as " The Hill ", is a maximum security state prison located in Chemung County, in the City of Elmira in the US state of New York. It is operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Jul 26, 2014 · The camp held more than 12,000 prisoners, but only had barrack space for 5,000. Prisoners who died at the camp are buried at Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira. Elmira’s Civil War prison camp...
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ELMIRA Correctional Records. Search all state-committed inmates recently under the correctional supervision of ELMIRA. Offender details include offense details, commitment date, current supervision or custody status, and a link to the official department of corrections supervision record.
In July 1864 the federal government established a Union prison camp at Elmira, New York, to contain the overflow of captured Confederate enlisted men from the camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. The thirty-acre prison enclosure housed 12,123 captives in barracks and tents.
The Eastern New York Reformatory at Napanoch opened in 1900, receiving its inmates by transfer from Elmira. Napanoch, still in the building stage, needed construction workers, so Elmira sent on its older and stronger inmates.
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NYS DOCCS: These statistics represent the number of incarcerated individuals under custody of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, which oversees the state prisons. Individuals in state prison are sentenced to terms in excess of one year.
