Despite community opposition, Beacon Correctional Facility closed in September 2013 as a result of
NYS Assembly budget cuts. It was the state's only minimum security facility for women.[2]
This list template only include facilities for post-trial long-term confinement of adult females and juvenile females sentenced as adults, of one or two years or more (referred to as "prisons" in the United States, while the word "jail" normally refers to short-term confinement facilities)
Despite community opposition, Beacon Correctional Facility closed in September 2013 as a result of
NYS Assembly budget cuts. It was the state's only minimum security facility for women.[2]
This list template only include facilities for post-trial long-term confinement of adult females and juvenile females sentenced as adults, of one or two years or more (referred to as "prisons" in the United States, while the word "jail" normally refers to short-term confinement facilities)