Willard Drug Treatment Center

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Willard Drug Treatment Campus
Location7116 County Road 132
Willard, New York
Statusopen
Security classspecialty (drug treatment)
Capacity900
Opened1995
Managed byNew 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[]

  1. ^ "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 / 42.682230; -76.868763

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