Upstate Correctional Facility

Upstate Correctional Facility

Location	309 Bare Hill Road Malone, New York
Status	Operational
Security class	Maximum / Supermax
Capacity	1300
Opened	1998
Managed by	New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

Upstate Correctional Facility is a maximum security state prison for men in Franklin County, New York, US. The prison, in the Town of Malone, was the first New York State prison built as a supermax.^[1]

Upstate C.F. is located near Franklin Correctional Facility and Bare Hill Correctional Facility, both medium security prisons.

Upstate C.F. was established in 1998 to house special prisoners with a history of assaultive behavior. Programs available to the prisoners are based on the acceptance of the established rules and other behavior indicating a degree of social conformity. Approximately 350 corrections officers, aided by more than 1000 remote cameras, supervise about 1300 prisoners.

Upstate is also a cadre facility. Cadre is the name of the program in which inmates are brought in to work around the prison grounds. The Cadre program holds approximately 300 inmates. The other 1000 inmates are in the SHU, special housing unit. The SHU is more commonly known as the box.^{[citation needed]}