Jail Management Division
The Erie County Holding Center (ECHC), located in Buffalo, New York, is a pretrial, maximum security detention facility. It is the second largest detention facility in New York State, outside of New York City. The Erie County Holding Center has a capacity of housing 598 inmates remanded to the custody of the Sheriff of Erie County. It processes more than 20,000 inmates annually. The facility is a combination of pods and open bay construction and traditional linear type cells. Overflow inmates are housed at the Holding Center Annex at the Erie County Correctional Facility (ECCF).
The Erie County Correctional Facility (ECCF) is located in Alden, New York. And presently can hold approximately 794 inmates of various classifications. The facility is a combination of "New Generation Jail" pods and open bay construction.
The populations housed at the Erie County Holding Center and Erie County Correctional Facility include: non arraigned, non-sentenced, sentenced, and federal inmates. Males, females and adolescents (those adolescents adjudicated as adults) are housed at both adult facilities.
The county system combines statistics (ECHC and ECCF) regarding average length of stay (LOS) at the jails: un-sentenced inmates have a LOS of 3 days, while sentenced inmates have a LOS of 40 days. The Sheriff's Office provides medical and dental services to both the ECHC and ECCF.
The Erie County Department of Mental Health Services, through the Adult Forensic Mental Health Clinic is responsible for the behavioral mental health services for both adult facilities. Additionally, inmates can be admitted to the Erie County Medical Center's secure Psychiatric Service Unit, guarded by in hospital sheriff's deputies.
Sheriff Tim Howard has come under intense scrutiny for numerous suicides, mistaken releases and overall incompetence and mismanagement of the Holding Center. http://www.scoc.ny.gov/press-release-20100519-escape.htm
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