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| Location | 9000 Old River Road Marcy, New York |
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| Status | open |
| Security class | medium |
| Capacity | 1522 |
| Opened | 1989 |
| Managed by | New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Marcy Correctional Facility is a men's medium-security state prison in the town of Marcy, Oneida County, New York. [1]
Marcy specializes in providing alcohol and drug treatment programs. All of Marcy is on one level; the lack of stairs improves accessibility for disabled prisoners. It also has vocational programs for sanitation, bricklaying, and electrical repair. It has a full-sized football field surrounded by a track. The biggest room at the prison is the basketball court, also used as a presentation space.
The prison is located across the street from the Central New York Psychiatric Center, where incarcerated prisoners from state and local jurisdictions can be held and treated, and the Mid-State Correctional Facility. A separate medium security housing unit, the Residential Mental Health Unit (RMHU), is located within Marcy. The RMHU unit houses inmates with lengthy disciplinary sanctions who also suffer with severe mental health issues. The RMHU unit has its own fence that separates it from the rest of the facility. Midstate and Marcy are on opposite sides of the highway, and as both are set back from the road, it is easily 1⁄4 mile (0.25 miles (0.40 km)) between the two prisons' gates. The Psychiatric Center houses sex offenders civilly committed. [2]
Marcy was the subject of an October 2022 Correctional Association of New York oversight report released in 2023 that included a two-day monitoring visit and 117 interviews with inmates. Findings included poor food quality, a lack of hygienic goods, poor healthcare amenities due to staffing vacancies, racialized verbal and physical abuse against Black inmates, widespread violence against inmates by staff, and an unresponsive grievance process. [3]
On December 9, 2024, corrections officers allegedly fatally brutalized Robert Brooks while he was handcuffed in a medical examination room. [4] The killing of Brooks prompted renewed scrutiny and investigations over Marcy Correctional Facility's history of abuse by staff. [5] Some state lawmakers have suggested closing the facility. [6] On February 20, 2025, "nearly a dozen" of those were involved in the beating and death of Brooks, including a least six correctional officers, would be indicted by a grand jury and arrested on murder, manslaughter, gang assault and tampering with evidence charges. [7] [8] [9]
Marcy Corr Faclty
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| Medium security | |
| Maximum security | |
| Closed | |
Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female) or ♂♀ (unisex) | |
