Southport Correctional Facility

Southport Correctional Facility
Location	236 Bob Masia Drive Pine City, New York
Status	open
Security class	maximum
Opened	1988
Managed by	New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

The Southport Correctional Facility is an ultra-maximum-security, or "supermax", prison, run by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. It is located in the town of Southport, in Central New York State, United States.

It is rare for a prisoner to be sent directly to Southport from the outside; virtually all of its inmates have been transferred there after committing serious disciplinary infractions at some other prison in the state. On occasion, however, a particularly notorious inmate may be sent there for "protective custody"; that is to say, to prevent him from being attacked by other inmates. One example was convicted child-killer Joel Steinberg.

History

The prison opened on October 11, 1988.

Incidents

Southport became the scene of a riot on June 26, 1990, when fighting broke out among a group of approximately 250 inmates, eight of whom were injured in the melee, along with 19 members of the prison's staff.

Another incident, this one involving the taking of four employees as hostages, followed on May 28, 1991. Prisoners and correctional officers injured that day received care at nearby Arnot-Ogden Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, NY.

Interview with inmate

Michael Alig was transferred to Southport in 2000 and in an interview with New York magazine said:

What Southport is famous for is the shit and the piss throwing. Because the inmates have no access to each other, what they do is fill cups up with shit and piss and throw it at each other. You get caught doing it once, they keep your hands handcuffed behind your back so you can't throw anything. So if you really still want to get your neighbor with shit, guess what you do? You put it in your mouth and when you get to the yard, you spit it on someone.^[1]

Notes

↑ http://nymag.com/news/people/24365/index2.html

External links

NY prison information

Prison riots and uprisings

Before 2000	1804 Castle Hill convict rebellion 1943 Featherston prisoner of war camp riot 1943 Sobibór extermination camp uprising 1943 Janowska concentration camp riot 1944 Cowra breakout 1946 Battle of Alcatraz 1953 Norilsk uprising 1953 Vorkuta uprising 1954 Kengir uprising 1959 Montana State Prison riot 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot 1971 Attica Prison riot 1974 Huntsville Prison siege 1976 HM Prison Hull riot 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary riot 1985 Badaber Uprising 1985 Oklahoma State Penitentiary riot 1986 West Virginia State Penitentiary riot 1986 Peruvian prison massacres 1987 Atlanta prison riots 1988 Fremantle Prison riot 1989 SCI Camp Hill Pennsylvania riots 1989 Polish prison riots 1990 Strangeways Prison riot 1990 Southport Correctional Facility riot 1991 Federal Correctional Institution, Talladega riot 1992 Carandiru massacre 1993 Southern Ohio Correctional Facility riot 1997 Khujand prison riot

From 2000	2000 F-type Prisons strike and riots 2001 Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 2003 Eagle Mountain riot 2004 Arizona State Prison Complex – Lewis riot 2006 North County Correctional Facility riot 2007 New Castle Correctional Facility riot 2008 La Mesa Prison riot 2009 Mexico prison riot 2011 HM Prison Ford riot 2012 Altamira prison brawl 2012 Apodaca prison riot 2012 Caracas prison riot 2012 Welikada prison riot 2013 Uribana prison riot 2013 Palmasola prison riot 2015 Kaohsiung Prison riot 2016 Topo Chico prison riot 2016 Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo riot

New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision prisons

Minimum Security	Edgecombe Lincoln Queensboro Rochester

Medium Security	Adirondack Albion♀ Altona Bare Hill Cape Vincent Cayuga Collins Fishkill Franklin Gouverneur Gowanda Greene Groveland Hale Creek Hudson Livingston Marcy Mid-State Mohawk Ogdensburg Orleans Otisville Riverview Taconic♀ Ulster Wallkill Washington Watertown Woodbourne Wyoming

Maximum Security	Attica Auburn Bedford Hills♀ Clinton Coxsackie Downstate Eastern Elmira Five Points Great Meadow Green Haven Shawangunk Sing Sing Southport Sullivan Upstate Wende

Drug Treatment Centers	Willard♂♀

Shock Facilities	Lakeview♂♀ Moriah

Closed (partial list)	Arthur Kill Bayview♀ Beacon♀ Buffalo Camp Gabriels Chateaugay ASACTC Lyon Mountain Mid-Orange Monterey Mt. McGregor

Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female) or ♂♀ (unisex)

Coordinates: 42°03′02″N 76°47′47″W / 42.05056°N 76.79639°W / 42.05056; -76.79639

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