Research

Scope and Content Note

Lyon Mountain Correctional Facility, located in Clinton County, N.Y., was a minimum security correctional facility for male felons. The facility opened in 1984 and was closed by the State of New York in 2011. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.

W0065-05: This accretion includes the case file of one inmate incarcerated in Attica Correctional Facility at the time of the 1971 uprising, but ultimately released from Lyon Mountain Correctional Facility.

W0065-08: This accretion contains a 2% sample of case files of inmates incarcerated in Lyon Mountain Correctional Facility, the majority of whom were released from 1988-1992. In addition to the sampled case files, prisoners receiving life sentences, sex offenders, inmates who died in custody, and inmates of Asian and Native American ethnicity are included when available.