A medium security prison for men on Old River Road in Marcy, Oneida County, five street numbers from another state prison. Letters go to a post box that is not the one printed on its address, and unlike its neighbour it keeps every weekend open while capping visits at two a week.
City
Marcy
County
Oneida County
State
NY
Facility Type
state prison
Gender
Adult male
Custody Levels
Medium
Operator
New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Address
9005 Old River Road, P.O. Box 2500, Marcy, NY 13403
Phone
315-768-8581
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The state prints two boxes for this prison. Families need the second one.
View ArticleNo weekend rota here, and a cap of two visits a week instead.
View ArticleOne statewide tool, and how to tell Mid-State from the prison next door.
View ArticleA slip and a money order cost nothing. The quick ones carry a fee.
View ArticleCalls went free across New York in August 2025 and need no account.
View ArticleLetters go to P.O. Box 2500. NYSDOCCS prints the prison's own box, P.O. Box 216, first on the address line with the family box in brackets after it, so anything copied in a hurry inherits the wrong number. Mail is opened and inspected at the prison and the paper is handed over, so what you wrote is what they hold.
See the full breakdownWeekends and weekday holidays, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, arriving by 2:15 PM. Mid-State runs no weekend rota, so every weekend on the calendar is available, and the limit is two visits a week instead. That is the reverse of Marcy next door, which rations weekends by DIN and caps nothing within a day.
See the full breakdownOne statewide tool covers every New York state prison and takes a last name and first name. What needs care here is the neighbour: Marcy Correctional Facility sits at 9000 Old River Road, five street numbers away, with its own post box and its own phone number.
See the full breakdownSix routes in, and the two free ones are a money order by post and the visitor lockbox at the prison. Online, the JPay app and the phone all carry a fee and post faster. Every deposit is matched to the DIN, not a name, so the Old River Road box confusion never affects the money.
See the full breakdownFree since August 1, 2025, with no account for a family to open or fund. Three calls of up to fifteen minutes credited every Saturday, thirty minutes on anything after that, between 7:00 AM and 11:00 PM, across fifteen numbers the person inside manages.
See the full breakdown6 of 8 questions
P.O. Box 2500, Marcy, NY 13403, with their full name and DIN on the envelope and your return address in the top left corner. The P.O. Box 216 printed on the facility's address line is the prison's own box, not the one that reaches a person in custody.
Mail & PhotosBecause NYSDOCCS publishes a business address and a separate incarcerated mail box for its prisons, and prints them on one line as P.O. Box 216 with Box 2500 in brackets. Anything copied from that line without reading the bracket inherits the wrong box.
Mail & PhotosYes. Mid-State does not reserve weekends for groups of incarcerated people, so every weekend and weekday holiday is open. What limits you instead is the cap of two visits per week.
Visitation8:00 AM to 3:00 PM on weekends and weekday holidays, with the latest arrival at 2:15 PM. Three visitors are allowed plus one child under five.
VisitationNo, though they are neighbours on the same road. Mid-State is 9005 Old River Road on 315-768-8581 and takes P.O. Box 2500 for family mail. Marcy is 9000 Old River Road on 315-768-1400 and takes P.O. Box 3600. Their visiting rules differ too.
Inmate SearchNot to Mid-State. A statewide programme run with the state provides free visitor buses to 18 prisons, and neither Mid-State nor Marcy is on that list. Marcy village is about four and a half hours from the city and fifteen minutes from Utica.
VisitationNothing. New York made every call from a state prison free to families on August 1, 2025. Three calls of up to fifteen minutes are credited each Saturday, calls after those run to thirty minutes, and the window is 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM across fifteen approved numbers.
Phone CallsTo the JPay lockbox at PO Box 531190, Miami, Florida 33153, with a deposit slip, free by post and capped at $999.99 per money order. There is also a visitor lockbox at the prison taking up to $50 cash a day in total. Money never goes in the envelope.
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