CANY Releases Report Following Monitoring at Franklin Correctional Facility
December 8, 2025
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New Reporting Provides Overview of Facility’s Key Features, Challenges
Brooklyn, NY — The Correctional Association of New York (CANY) has released a report on Franklin Correctional Facility, a medium security level facility for men 18 years and older, in Malone, New York. The report includes observations and findings from CANY’s September 2024 monitoring visit to the prison, conducted as part of CANY’s oversight mandate pursuant to Correction Law §146(3).
During the two-day monitoring visit, CANY representatives conducted 74 interviews with incarcerated people, representing 9% of the facility’s population, and conducted visual observations across the facility. CANY representatives also met with facility leadership, medical and mental health staff, program and administrative employees, the Incarcerated Liaison Committee (ILC), the Incarcerated Grievance Resolution Committee (IGRC), and representatives from religious denominations.
Key findings include:
Staff-Incarcerated Individual Interactions: A higher-than-average number of respondents interviewed by CANY alleged physical abuse by staff. Some individuals reported incidents of racial discrimination against Black individuals.
Health Care: 71% of incarcerated individuals reported good experiences with medical care—a higher rate of satisfaction with healthcare than documented at other facilities CANY has monitored.
Grievance Program: Franklin reported both a high rate of grievance filings—higher than other medium-security prisons—and low rates of reported trust in that process.
Staffing: In September 2024, there were 48 correctional officer vacancies reported by the facility. That number rose to 116 in April 2025.
"CANY’s report on Franklin Correctional Facility arrives as its neighboring facility, Bare Hill, has been slated for closure,” said Jennifer Scaife, Executive Director of the Correctional Association of New York (CANY). “Future monitoring will reveal whether the staffing challenges and associated delays in access to basic services will be eased by an influx of transferred staff.”
The full report is available at:
About CANY
CANY, under §146 of New York’s Correction Law, is charged with visiting and examining the state's correctional facilities to identify and report on prison conditions, the treatment of incarcerated individuals, and the administration of policy promulgated by the executive and legislature. Founded in 1844 by concerned citizens of the state and deputized by the state to provide monitoring and oversight of the state’s prisons in 1846, CANY is one of the first organizations in the country prescribed to administer civilian oversight of prisons.
