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Multi security level prison in New York, US

Fishkill Correctional Facility is a multi security level prison in New York, United States. The prison is located in both the Town of Fishkill and the City of Beacon in Dutchess County. Fishkill was constructed in 1896. It began as the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. As a minimum security facility, it houses both inmates that work outside the facility on behalf of the prison and inmates that are in the work release temporary release program. As a medium security facility it houses general population and Office of Mental Health inmates. As a maximum security facility it houses inmates under disciplinary segregation in the S Block Special Housing Unit. Fishkill also houses the Regional Medical Unit for Southern New York's prisons.

The present facility is located on land originally purchased by the New York state government to build and operate Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in 1892. Some of the original buildings are in use now at Fishkill. Matteawan ceased operation in 1977 and the facility was converted to its present use as a medium security prison for men. In 1998, a maximum security S Block Special Housing Unit was added to the facility to hold 200 maximum security inmates that are under disciplinary segregation.

Fishkill houses approximately 1,800 inmates, operates as the Regional Medical Unit for southern New York's prisons, and offers a range of educational programs, including Pre General Equivalency Diploma (Pre GED), General Equivalency Diploma (GED), English as a Second Language (ESL), Associates of Arts in Liberal Arts through the Bard Prison Initiative, Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management through a partnership between Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison and Nyack College. Available is the only Commercial Arts Program in a New York State prison. The facility also provides Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment (ASAT), Sex Offender Treatment, and various vocational programs. The Puppy Program assigns selected inmates (not all are eligible) a puppy who the inmate raises until the dog is two years old and taken away for more advanced training, typically as a police dog. In one small wing where puppy program participants live, puppies can be loose as a barricade prevents their reentry into the general area. Outside that area puppies have to be leashed. They were often walked outdoors. There is an indoor basketball court, and in the basement a weight room, with inmate staff keeping track of equipment, which has to be checked out. There is sometimes a minyan (group of 10) for orthodox Jewish prayer. The facility also houses the Fishkill Specialty Steel division of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's Corcraft Industries. Fishkill Specialty Steel gives inmate real world experience in welding and metal fabrication. The programs produces custom sheet metal products, classroom desks and various other items of steel that are used in schools across the state, prisons, mental health facilities, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the New York City Department of Sanitation.