Cheshire Correctional Institution
| Location |
900 Highland Avenue Cheshire, Connecticut |
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| Status | open |
| Capacity | 1404 |
| Opened | 1913 |
| Managed by | Connecticut Department of Correction |
| Director | Warden Jon Brighthaupt |
Cheshire Correctional Institution is a Connecticut Department of Correction state prison for men located in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut.[1] The facility was built beginning in 1910, partly by the inmates of the Wethersfield State Prison, and opened in 1913 as the Chester Reformatory for male youths ages 16 to 24. In 1982, the state's Manson Youth Institution opened adjacent to the CCI, and Cheshire was re-designated as an adult prison.
Current capacity of CCI is 1404 inmates. Among the inmates is former Yale University laboratory technician Raymond J. Clark, III, serving 44 years for the September 2009 murder of Annie Le at Yale.[2]
Notable Inmates
- Frank Vandever - Housed here after his 1991 New Year's Eve escape from Somers, (now Osborn) Correctional Facility in Somers, Connecticut.
References
Coordinates: 41°31′18″N 72°54′00″W / 41.521721°N 72.899941°W
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