Green Haven Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in New York, United States. The prison is located in the Town of Beekman in Dutchess County. The New York State Department of Correctional Services lists the address as Route 216, Stormville, NY 12582. This prison housed New York's death row during the time the state briefly had the death penalty (but never used it) in the post-Furman era. New York's electric chair "old sparky" was moved here from the Ossining prison. Inmates and correctional officers at Green Haven were featured in the PBS Frontline program A Class Divided.
It was originally a federal prison and now houses maximum security inmates, most of them having ties to Mafias and mobs.
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