A medium security New York state prison for men in the village of Otisville, Orange County, about ninety minutes from New York City. A federal prison of almost the same name sits in the same village, and which weekend day you can visit here depends on the first letter of the last name.
City
Otisville
County
Orange County
State
NY
Facility Type
state prison
Gender
Adult male
Custody Levels
Medium
Operator
New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Address
57 Sanitorium Road, Otisville, NY 10963-0008
Phone
845-386-1490
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A to L one day, M to Z the other. The weekend is split, not shared.
View ArticleMost New York prisons take a post box. This one does not.
View ArticleTwo prisons, one village, two different systems to search.
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 ArticleWeekends and weekday holidays, 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM, with three visitors plus a child under five. The detail that decides the day is the surname: weekend days are split between A to L and M to Z, and Saturday and Sunday of the same weekend belong to different groups, so a family gets one day a weekend, not two.
See the full breakdownLetters go to 57 Sanitorium Road with no post box, which is unusual across New York and catches people who expect to copy a box number off the page. The other care needed is the village: a federal prison sits in it too, and an envelope addressed to the wrong institution does not cross between them.
See the full breakdownTwo prisons named Otisville sit in one village, one run by New York and one by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and each has its own search tool. The NYSDOCCS lookup covers the state prison. Anyone in federal custody is found through the BOP locator instead, and no single search covers both.
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. Deposits for the state prison run through JPay; the federal prison uses an entirely different system.
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.
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This guide is for Otisville Correctional Facility, the New York state prison at 57 Sanitorium Road, run by NYSDOCCS. FCI Otisville is a separate federal prison in the same village, at its own address, run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. They hold different people and take different addresses.
Inmate Search57 Sanitorium Road, Otisville, NY 10963-0008, with their full name and DIN on the envelope and your return address in the top left corner. There is no post box here, which is unusual for a New York state prison, so the street address is the address.
Mail & PhotosNo. Otisville splits weekend days by the first letter of the last name, into A to L and M to Z, and Saturday and Sunday of the same weekend go to different groups. Weekday holidays are open to everyone with no name restriction.
Visitation8:30 AM to 2:30 PM on weekends and weekday holidays. Three visitors are allowed plus one child under the age of five.
VisitationAbout ninety minutes by car, which makes it one of the nearer state prisons to the city. The free state visitor bus does not serve Otisville.
VisitationBy which system you searched. The NYSDOCCS lookup returns state prisons, so a result there means Otisville Correctional Facility. Someone in federal custody at FCI Otisville is found through the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator instead.
Inmate SearchNothing. 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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All information on this page comes directly from official government and facility sources. How we verify information › Last verified September 25, 2026. Official source: doccs.ny.gov/location/otisville-correctional-facility ›