Albion Correctional Facility is a medium security women's prison in Albion, NY of Orleans County that is operated by the New York Department of Corrections. Most famously, Albion housed "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher. There are three places named Albion in the State of New York Albion, Orleans County, New York, a village (Orleans County) Albion (town), New York, a town (Orleans County) Albion, Oswego County, New York, a town This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... Orleans County is a county located in the state of New York. ... Amy Fisher, (born Amy Elizabeth Fisher, August 21, 1974), in September 1992, pled guilty to nonfatally shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco on the front porch of her Massapequa, New York home. ...
Forever changing, Albion was a pioneer in the women's reformatory movement and then became the world's first institution for female "defective delinquents." In the 1960's, it was a rehabilitation center for drug addicts; in the 1970's, a community preparation center for men.
Credit for creating the Albion institution belongs primarily to Josephine Shaw Lowell, "the Queen Victoria of New York." Lowell, born in 1843, lost her husband and a brother in the Civil War.
Albion's managers may have been holier-than-thou, but they were evidently kind--certainly, no one went back to Sing Sing or Elmira on their own.
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