Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville
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| Location |
Town of Mount Hope, Orange County, near Otisville, New York |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Medium-security (with minimum-security prison camp) |
| Population | 1,050 (115 in prison camp) |
| Opened | 1977 |
| Managed by | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
| Warden | Monica Recktenwald |
The Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville (FCI Otisville) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates located near Otisville, New York. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. It also includes a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders. The prison has services catering to religious Jewish inmates.
FCI Otisville is located in southeastern New York State, near the Pennsylvania and New Jersey borders, and 70 miles (110 km) northwest of New York City. It is .25 miles (0.40 km) from the Otisville Correctional Facility, a medium-security state prison. It is 22 miles (35 km) from Monticello, New York, 28 miles (45 km) from Kiryas Joel, and 51 miles (82 km) from Monsey.
Aleph Institute's prison outreach director, Rabbi Menachem Katz, stated that the BOP "kind of unofficially designated it to meet the needs of Orthodox Jews" due to the proximity to the Jewish population of New York City. Circa 2008 the warden of the prison stated 58 prisoners were Jewish, while Jewish Prisoner Services International chairperson Gary Friedman stated that at least circa 120 prisoners were Jewish. FCI Otisville offers seders, done in the prison cafeteria. Until other prisons began offering seders, prisoners at those institutions took buses to Otisville to partake in seders. Peter Hyman of New York Magazine wrote "Otisville still offers one of the more traditional Seders in the prison system." Religious Jewish inmates request assignment to FCI Otisville for these reasons.
August 11, 2009, Hope Spinato, a former correction officer assigned to FCI Otisville, was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to aiding and assisting an inmate serving a 17-year drug trafficking sentence briefly escape from the facility. An FBI investigation found that Spinato became involved in a relationship with the inmate, whom the Bureau of Prisons did not identify, and drove the inmate out of the facility to her home and back on several occasions.
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