Elmira Correctional Facility, known otherwise as "the Hill", is a maximum security prison located in New York in the USA. The prison is located in Chemung County, New York in the City of Elmira. The ultra-maximum-security prison, Southport Correctional Facility is located 2 miles away from Elmira.
Originally serving as a prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War, its harsh conditions resulting in the deaths of thousands of Confederate pr...
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Elmira Correctional Facility, known otherwise as "the Hill", is a maximum security prison located in New York in the USA. The prison is located in Chemung County, New York in the City of Elmira. The ultra-maximum-security prison, Southport Correctional Facility is located 2 miles away from Elmira.
Originally serving as a prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War, its harsh conditions resulting in the deaths of thousands of Confederate prisoners, the New York state legislature voted to build a new prison on the site of the former prison camp for first time offenders between the ages of 16-30. See also Elmira Prison.
The prison, which officially received its first prisoners from Auburn Prison in July 1876, began a new era in the science of penology as the first "reformatory". The harsh methods of the "Auburn" and "Pennsylvania Systems" including corporal punishment, striped uniforms and lockstep marching were rejected along with the earlier reforms fostered by the Quakers in...
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