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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.
Elmira Prison was originally a barracks for "Camp Rathbun" or "Camp Chemung", a key muster and training point for the Union Army during the American Civil War, between 1861 and 1864. The 30-acre (120,000 m 2 ) site was selected partially due to its proximity to the Erie Railroad and the Northern Central Railway , which crisscrossed in the midst ...
Elmira was the first correctional institution of its kind in the country where the term of confinement depended upon the observable progress made by the prisoner. All sentences were indefinite with the maximum being the period specified in the Penal Law for the particular crime.
Elmira’s prison housed the Elmira Institute, a dedicated building within the prison with twenty-eight classrooms, a library, a trade school, a gym, a military drill hall, and a six hundred- seat lecture hall.
Elmira, now a general confinement facility for adult males, operates a modern correctional program along the lines laid down by Brockway. Military drill is gone at Elmira – it was discontinued in 1969 along with the band that accompanied it – but thrives at the Department's shock incarceration facilities.
The Elmira Reformatory’s first superintendent, Zebulon Brockway, began his 50 years of prison employment as a clerk at the Wethersfield State Prison in Connecticut. The Wethersfield facility had been strongly influenced by a family of prison wardens named the Pilsburys . . . .
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Jul 16, 1989 · ELMIRA, N.Y. — Like some rusty bayonet or tattered battle flag hidden away in the attic, the Elmira prison camp is an all-but-forgotten relic of the Civil War. Considering the human suffering...
