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Woodbourne Correctional Facility
Woodbourne
Correctional Facility
is a
medium security
men's prison
operated by
the
New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
in
Woodbourne, New York
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
Alfred Hopkins
, an
estate
architect with a sideline in prisons such as
Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary
in Pennsylvania. Hopkins also designed
Wallkill Correctional Facility
and
Coxsackie Correctional Facility
for the state.
Notable inmates
Juvenile murderer
Willie Bosket
, serving three
consecutive sentences
of
25 years
to life
for offenses committed while in the
Shawangunk Correctional Facility
and at Woodbourne. Bosket was housed in a specially-constructed plexiglass-lined cell in complete
isolation
but is no longer at Woodbourne.
Rapper
Shyne
of
New York City
served 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
.
