Gowanda Correctional Facility

Gowanda Correctional Facility
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LocationSouth Road, Gowanda, New York, USA
StatusClosed
Security classMedium Security
Capacity2,300
Opened1994
Closed2021
Managed byNew York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Partial view of Gowanda Correctional Facility with power plant in background at left, September 1996
Partial view of medium-security fencing at Gowanda Correctional Facility, south side, September 1996

The Gowanda Correctional Facility was a medium-security prison for men located in Gowanda, New York, United States.[1][2][3][4] The prison was located in the south part of Erie County in the Town of Collins.[1][2] It was adjacent to the Collins Correctional Facility, another medium-security prison.[1][2] Both prisons were located north of Village of Gowanda at the southern end of Erie County.[1][2][3] It opened in 1994 and closed in 2021.

  1. ^ a b c d Hosting innovative programming: Gowanda, Webcitation.org from the original at Geocities.com, November 1999, Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d Gowanda Correctional Facility Archived 2014-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, PrisonTalk.com, 9 October 2004, Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  3. ^ a b Facility listing Archived 2016-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Albany, NY: New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, 2014, Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  4. ^ Gowanda Correctional Facility Archived 2014-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, The Correctional Association of New York, New York, NY: The Correctional Association of New York, 2005, Retrieved 19 March 2014.