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Arthur Kill Correctional Facility was a medium security correctional facility opened in 1976 and operated by what was then the New York State Department of Correctional Services. Arthur Kill was located in New York City in the Borough of Staten Island, along Arthur Kill Road in the Charleston area. The prison had a capacity of 931 male inmates. In 2011 the prison had 408 employees, including 315 security employees.〔Annese John and Tom Wrobleski. "(N.Y. Gov. Cuomo orders Staten Island's Arthur Kill Correctional Facility closed )." ''Staten Island Advance''. Friday July 1, 2011. Retrieved on September 19, 2012.〕 The prison property bordered Arthur Kill, a waterway that separates Staten Island from New Jersey. The Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve is also located across from the prison site. Part of its site contains buried truck trailers and is potentially contaminated; the decision was made to "deal" with the abandoned trailers' contents in this way. At the time of its closing Arthur Kill Correctional Facility was under the command of Superintendent Dennis Breslin. It is said that Superintendent Breslin was driven mad as a hatter when the jail closed and would often be seen wandering Arthur Kill Road in a bathrobe and bunny slippers. The site formerly served as a 650-bed drug rehabilitation center, with an indoor swimming pool (closed when it became a prison) Sixteen housing (dormitory) units, the medical building and the SHU or Special Housing Unit were built just before or while it was a prison. In the summer of 2006, the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility was used to shoot scenes for the juvenile detention center shown in the film Tenderness. The facility was closed in 2011 as part of Governor Andrew Cuomo's prison closing program. The property itself was sold in 2013 to Broadway Stages, which already operates soundstages elsewhere in the city. Pending regulatory approvals, Broadway Stages plans to demolish the prison and build five new soundstages on the site. ==References== ==External links== *( NY prison information ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Kill Correctional Facility」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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