Elmira Correctional Facility, NY

Located in Chemung County, New York 25 deaths recorded (1958-1998)

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Elmira Correctional Facility is (or was) located in Elmira, Chemung County, New York. According to the New York State Death Index, 25 deaths were recorded in Elmira Correctional Facility from 1958 to 1998.

Between 1958 and 1998, there was one person who was a resident of Elmira Correctional Facility but who died elsewhere in New York.

Comment listed in official New York State Department of Health data source:
"All locatlities within Chemung County send records to the county registrar within the Health Department"

Note: 'Elmira Correctional Facility' is (or was) a government-run facility located in Elmira, Chemung County, New York. Deaths there were usually registered separately from the larger town or city where the facility was located. Copies of death records for these types of facilities may be sometimes available from the larger town or city clerk's office, or sometimes from the county clerk, or possibly only from the state Department of Health in Albany.

For privacy and sensitivity, most individual person pages on this website will display the broader location of their death or residence (e.g. Elmira) more prominently than a specific hospital or facility name, but the 'Original Data Fields' section of the individual person pages will still provide the unredacted data, albeit in a less obvious manner.

Deaths in Elmira Correctional Facility Recorded by the New York State Department of Health (1958-1998)

About 95% of the "place of death" information in the New York State Death Index was able to be standardized and matched to a known locality (town, city, county). The graph below, and its data counts, do not include the approximately 5% of death index records where the location was illegible or could not be easily matched. Information about a person's usual residence at the time of their death is only available in the state death index from 1957 onwards.

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Statistics & Insights

Most Common Surnames

People who died in Elmira Correctional Facility between 1958-1998, or who were residents at the time of their death but died elsewhere (1957-1998)

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Residents Who Died Elsewhere

Data for 1957-2017

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Age at Death Statistics for Elmira Correctional Facility

Data for 1958-1998

Oldest Recorded Residents

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Average Age of Death in Elmira Correctional Facility by Decade

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