Marcy Correctional Facility

Marcy Correctional Facility is a medium-security facility for male inmates that is located in Marcy, New York. It is operated by the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and can house approximately 1,500 inmates. 

Marcy specializes in drug and alcohol treatment for inmates, but it also features numerous educational and vocational programs. This facility is all on one level with no stairs, making it ideal for inmates with physical disabilities. 

Marcy Correctional Facility is located next to Mid-State Correctional Facility and the Central New York Psychiatric Center.

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Visiting Hours and Rules

Visiting hours for the general population at Marcy Correctional Facility are on weekends and holidays from 8:30AM to 3:00PM. You must arrive by 2:30PM to visit with your inmate.

Special Housing Unit Visiting Days & Hours (Inmates in SHU custody are allowed one non-legal visit within a seven day period): 8:30AM to 3:00PM Weekends and Holidays; Latest Arrival Time 2:30PM

A maximum number of three adults and two lap children are allowed to visit with an inmate at one time.For more detailed visiting information, click here.

Visit Checklist

This visit checklist helps you to prepare for your visit with an inmate:

  • Confirm that the offender has not been transferred and has visitation privileges.
  • Bring valid photo identification.
  • If you have made special arrangements with the facility, call before leaving to ensure that plans for your visit have been made and are in place.
  • Check clothing and jewelry for compliance with the dress code.
  • If you are bringing a child and you are not the legal guardian or parent, be sure you have a notarized statement from the child’s parent or legal guardian.
  • Arrive on the designated day during proper visiting hours.
  • Leave purses, wallets, and electronic devices in the glove compartment or in the trunk of your car. Be sure to lock your car.

Inmates are not allowed to take anything from the visiting area, so do not bring anything with you to give to your inmate.

Physical Address

Marcy Correctional Facility
9000 Old River Road
Marcy, NY 13403

Driving Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/okU79EyHgS7w69mB7

General Phone Number

​(315) 768-1400

Inmate Mailing Address(es)

Inmate Name, DOC Number
Marcy Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 3600
Marcy, NY 13403

Letters and photographs are allowed in your correspondence. However, you can’t send nude pics, Polaroid photos, postage stamps, or letters from other people, except children.

The limit per envelope is five pages of printed or photocopied materials. An individual newspaper clipping is considered to be one page. Do not tape, glue, or paste clipping or pages together or to other pages.

How to Call an Inmate

You can’t call an inmate at the Marcy Correctional Facility, but they do have access to phones during daytime hours for outgoing calls. For complete details on how to call an inmate in New York, please click here.

How to Send Money

When you visit Marcy Correctional Facility, you can leave cash, money orders, and checks in the visitor deposit lockbox. JPay also offers five ways for family and friends to send money to an inmate:

  • Online: Log into JPay to deposit money using your credit or debit card.
  • Mobile App: You can make deposits anytime, anywhere by downloading the free app at the APP STORE or GOOGLE PLAY
  • Phone: Credit and debit card deposits can be made by calling 1-800-574-5729.
  • US Mail: Mail a check or money order with a JPay deposit slip to the JPay Lockbox:
    JPay
    PO Box 531190
    Miami, Florida 33153
    Deposit slip: ENGLISH ESPANOL

Programs For Inmates

Marcy Correctional Facility offers a variety of programs and services for inmates, and there are also industries on the grounds that employ inmates.

Adult Basic Education

This course is for inmates who score below the sixth grade level on the Department's selected standardized test in reading, mathematics, and language arts in the context of real life adult problems and situations.

Aggression Replacement Training (ART)

A cognitive behavioral intervention program designed to assist inmates in improving social skills, moral reasoning, coping with and reducing aggressive behavior through the use of self-regulating exercises and mindfulness.

Building Maintenance

The Building Maintenance program provides students with fundamental skills required to make minor repairs in carpentry, masonry, electricity, plumbing, and weatherization. This course prepares the student with entry-level skills as a building superintendent.

College Program

In addition to the New York Theological Seminary's Masters of Professional Studies Program, Marcy offers the Mohawk Valley Community College Associate's Degree Program.

Comprehensive Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment

Legislatively mandated substance abuse treatment developed to ensure that substance use disordered individuals receive the maximum benefit from a substance abuse treatment experience during their preparation for transition back to the community.

Incarcerated individuals approved for Presumptive Work Release are provided CASAT in three phases.

  • Phase I - an intensive, six month minimum, prison-based residential substance abuse treatment that employs the Therapeutic Community model.
  • Phase II - Community Reintegration (outpatient treatment).
  • Phase III - Aftercare (community transition and ongoing treatment for participants released to Community Supervision).

Custodial Maintenance

The Custodial Maintenance Course emphasizes custodial services, including floor care, carpet and fabric care, upholstery care, window care, restroom care, and the safe use and operation of power cleaning equipment and sanitation chemicals.

Electrical Trades

This course provides instruction in basic electricity with emphasis on installing and servicing of all types of residential and commercial wiring systems. Skills taught include code interpretation, installation and servicing of circuits and controls, use of testing equipment, reading of architectural drawings, and wiring schematics.

General Business

The General Business course provides students with instruction on using computers, calculators, and printers. Students become familiar with software applications, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, and desktop publishing. In addition, instruction is offered in filing, mailing procedures, bookkeeping, and business correspondence.

Horticulture

Horticulture refers to the production, care, management and marketing of plants such as flowers, shrubs, trees, bulbs and turf. Training includes instruction and practice in techniques and methods of plant propagation, transplanting, pruning, cultivation, fertilization and greenhouse production, as well as plant identification and insect control.

Incarcerated Veterans Program

Designed to address the readjustment and reentry needs of veterans returning home after incarceration.

Masonry

Students in masonry are taught the fundamentals of wall construction, mixing mortar, learning to work with brick, cinderblock, cement blocks, and concrete. Students must also learn blueprint reading and trade mathematics.

Painting and Decorating

Students in this program learn techniques of paint application to both interior and exterior surfaces. Skills taught relate to preparation of the surface, and application of stains, clear finishes and pigmented paint. Students learn techniques of wallpapering and wood refinishing. Instruction is given in safety procedures in handling paints, ladders, and scaffolding.

Printing

The Printing Course is an extensive program teaching a variety of techniques ranging from bookbinding, typesetting, and lithography (offset press work). The goal of this course is to provide students with entry level skills that will enable them to secure employment in the printing trade.

Residential Substance Abuse Treatment

Intensive, structured residential treatment for a minimum of six months employing the Therapeutic Community model. Participants progress through the early stages of recovery with the potential for continued treatment upon release. 

Sex Offender Counseling and Treatment Program

The Sex Offender Counseling and Treatment Program (SOCTP) is a comprehensive program of counseling and treatment offered by the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for convicted sex offenders and other offenders the Department identifies as likely to benefit from sex offender counseling and treatment based upon a study of their background.

Small Engine Repair

The Small Engine Repair course provides training in the repair and maintenance of lawn and garden equipment, recreational vehicles and motorcycles. Students learn troubleshooting, including testing, diagnosis, and repair. Skills taught include major engine overhaul, ignition testing and servicing, fuel system servicing and repair, mower blade replacement and servicing, power drive and transmitting systems, and understanding schematics and specifications.

Special Education

The Special Education Program provides intensive one-on-one and small group instruction to students under 21 years of age identified as having a disability. The goal of this program is to tailor learning activities to the diagnosed needs of students with a disability to enable them to achieve learning objectives and, where appropriate, to successfully participate in the regular academic program.

Waste Management

The Waste Management Program provides recycling and organic waste diversion and avoided cost services for the Department and selected municipalities. The program employs up to 1100 incarcerated individuals at various levels in New York facilities and regional recycling processing centers. Food Waste composting operations are located throughout the state and generally outside facility security perimeters.

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Careers at Marcy Correctional Facility

If you are interested in a career with the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and would like to work at the Marcy Correctional Facility, you can find out more information by clicking here.

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