Groveland Correctional Facility is a medium security prison located in the Town of Groveland in Livingston County, New York , in the United States . The facility is located next to the community of Sonyea in Groveland on the site of a former Shaker community. The town is south of Rochester, Monroe County, New York , near Interstate 390 .
10-431: The prison is divided into 2 parts, upper and lower, with a fence and sally port to restrict movement between the two. Dorms C-J, the prison hospital and food service are on the upper. Dorms K and L, as well as the commissary, school, church and recreation yards are on the lower. The recreation yards feature 3 softball diamonds, a weight yard and horseshoe pits. In the past, female prisoners were held at Groveland, but it
20-459: A building or structure in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a United States prison is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sally port A sallyport is a secure, controlled entry way to an enclosure, e.g., a fortification or prison. The entrance is usually protected by some means, such as a fixed wall on the outside, parallel to
30-468: A common way for besieged forces to reduce the strength and preparedness of a besieging army; a sallyport is therefore essentially a door in a castle or city wall that allows troops to make sallies without compromising the defensive strength of fortifications . Targets for these raids included tools, which defenders could capture and use, and labor-intensive enemy works and equipment, such as trenches, mines, siege engines , and siege towers . Sometimes
40-659: Is currently a male facility. As of 2010 Groveland had a working capacity of 1106. The Shakers owned the Groveland Shaker Village after 1836, when they moved from Sodus in Wayne County, New York to escape worldly influences. When the membership of the sect declined, the Shakers sold the land to the state after they were assured it would be used for good purpose. Several of the Shaker buildings are still used today. In 1896,
50-436: Is ultimately from Latin porta for door. Often the term postern is used synonymously . It can also mean a tunnel, or passage (i.e., a secret exit for those besieged). A sally , ultimately derived from Latin salīre (to jump), or "salle" sortie , is a military maneuver , typically during a siege , made by a defending force to harass isolated or vulnerable attackers before retreating to their defenses. Sallies are
60-437: The defenders also attacked enemy laborers, and stole or destroyed the besiegers' food supplies. An extract from a 19th-century dictionary of military terms describes a sallyport thus: those underground passages, which lead from the inner to the outward works ; such as from the higher flank to the lower, to the tenailles , or the communication from the middle of the curtain to the ravelin . When they are constructed for
70-429: The door, which must be circumvented to enter and prevents direct enemy fire from a distance. It may include two sets of doors that can be barred independently to further delay enemy penetration. From around 1600 to 1900, a sallyport was a sort of dock where boats picked up or dropped off ship crews from vessels anchored offshore. That meaning occasionally still occurs, especially in coastal Great Britain. The word port
80-491: The out-works, instead of making them with steps, they must have a gradual slope, and be eight feet wide. Law enforcement in the United States uses sallyports as secure entrances to jails, prisons and courthouses. It is within the closed sallyport where weapons are found and secured so they do not enter the facility. Newly arrested persons are usually driven in through a jail's sallyport and the exterior doors closed. Once inside
90-473: The passage of men only, they are made with steps at the entrance, and outlet. They are about six feet wide, and 8 + 1 / 2 feet high [1.8 m × 2.6 m]. There is also a gutter or shore made under the sallyports that are in the middle of the curtains, in order that the water which runs down the streets may pass into the ditch ; but this can only be done when they are wet ditches. When sallyports serve to carry guns through them for
100-694: The state opened a facility for epileptics on 1900 acres of land in Sonyea. The institution was known first as the Sonyea Colony, before being renamed as the Craig Colony for Epileptics after Oscar Craig , who at the time served as president of New York's State Board of Charities. The facility closed in 1968, and the land and buildings were later repurposed by the state prison system. 42°40′56″N 77°50′10″W / 42.68222°N 77.83611°W / 42.68222; -77.83611 This article about
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