Willard Drug Treatment Center
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Location | 7116 County Road 132 Willard, New York |
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Status | open |
Security class | specialty (drug treatment) |
Capacity | 900 |
Opened | 1995 |
Managed by | New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Willard Drug Treatment Campus is a specialized state prison in Seneca County, New York, United States. The prison focuses on treatment of drug-addicted convicts. Willard Drug Treatment Campus is located in Willard, a community in the Town of Romulus, and is adjacent to Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes Region.
Willard is a 900-bed intensive "boot-camp" style drug treatment campus for men and women. This voluntary 97-day treatment program provides a sentencing option for individuals convicted of a drug offense and parole violators who otherwise would have been returned to a state prison in most cases for a year or more. The facility is operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in conjunction with the and is licensed by the state (OASAS).[1]
History[]
The drug treatment campus was opened in 1995 on the site of the former Willard Psychiatric State Hospital, a facility for mental patients.
The Paranormal Research Society, headquartered at Pennsylvania State University, investigated the drug treatment campus and featured it on a season one episode of Paranormal State titled "The Asylum."
References[]
- ^ "WILLARD DRUG TREATMENT CAMPUS" (PDF). Correctional Association of New York.
Coordinates: 42°40′56″N 76°52′08″W / 42.682230°N 76.868763°W
- Prisons in New York (state)
- Buildings and structures in Seneca County, New York
- 1995 establishments in New York (state)