Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
for Women is a prison in Bedford
Hills
, Westchester County, New York
, USA
. It is the largest women's prison in New York
State and has hosted many infamous
prisoners. It is the only women's maximum security prison in
New York State. The prison previously opened under the name
Westfield State Farm in 1901.
Bedford
Hills is one of several New York facilities exclusively for women,
the others being Albion Correctional Facility
, Bayview Correctional Facility
, Beacon Correctional Facility, and Taconic
Correctional Facility
.
Notable inmates
- Pamela Smart,
Former media services consultant was found guilty in March 1991 for
conspiring with her underage lover, William Flynn, and his three
friends to kill her 24-year-old husband, Greggory Smart, in
Derry, New
Hampshire
. She was transferred to Bedford Hills from the
New Hampshire State Prison for
Women
in in March 1993 because New Hampshire did not have
a secure enough facility to house her, the higher security
necessary due to the high-profile nature of her case. Her
case grew national attention in the 1990s. She was sentenced to
life in prison without the
possibility for parole.
- Carolyn Warmus, Former Greenville
Elementary School teacher convicted for the
murder of Paul Solomon's wife Betty Jean to get closer with him.
Carolyn and Paul both worked at Greenville as school teachers and
Carolyn frequently visited the Solomon house and became a role
model to Paul's daughter Kristan. Her first trial was a mistrial
and after Paul Solomon found a cashmere glove covered with blood,
it was a new piece of evidence linking her to the murder and
Carolyn was found guilty at her second trial. She faced the minimum
of 15 years, but Judge Carey sentenced her to the maximum of 25
years to life in prison.
- Amy Fisher, Famously known as "The
Long Island Lolita" by the press, convicted of the 1992 shooting of
the wife of her lover Joey
Buttafuoco, with whom she began an affair as a 16 year-old
student. She had served 7 years in prison and was released from
prison in 1999. Since her release she has become a writer and a
porn star.
- Sheila
Davalloo, Pleasantville, New York
wife guilty of attempted murder for stabbing her husband, Paul Christos three times as he
was blindfolded and handcuffed during a kinky game in their
condominium to remain with her lover Nelson Sessler and have him
for herself. She faced a minimum of five years in prison but
was sentenced the maximum of 25 years in prison on all charges.
In
November 2007 she was charged with the murder of Annna Lisa
Raymundo in Stamford,
Connecticut
whom Sessler was seeing and ended his relationship
with Davalloo. As of December 2008 Davalloo is currently out
of Bedford Hills to stand trial for the murder of Raymundo and is
under a $1M bond.
- Kathy Boudin, Convicted in 1984 for
her involvement in a robbery that resulted in the killing of three
people, and who became a public health expert while in prison. She
was sentenced to life in prison and
was released on September 17, 2003. After her parole she accepted a
job in the H.I.V./AIDS Clinic at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
Center.
- Sante Kimes,
Infamous for the murder of 82-year old New York City
socialite Irene
Silverman. She also was convicted of killing David Kazdin in
early 1998, a business associate of her husband and a family friend
of the Kimes family, in California. She was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Irene
Silverman and was sentenced to another life sentence for the murder
of David Kazdin. She and her son Kenny Kimes drew prison sentences
of more than 100 years each than what they were already
serving.
- Remy Ma, Famous rapper currently serving
8 years for allegedly shooting her best friend Makeeda
Barnes-Joseph in the abdomen over a missing sum of $3,000.
- Nixzaliz Santiago, Convicted
of manslaughter in connection with the death of her daughter,
Nixzmary Brown, and sentenced to 43 years in prison. Nixzmary's
stepfather Cesar Rodriguez tortured (later learned to be bound and
her mouth duct-taped, and beaten) Nixzmary, and her mother
allegedly ignored this and didn't contact authorities in time to
save her daughter's life. Justice Patricia DiMango made these harsh
remarks to her: "You may not have delivered the fatal blow, but
were it not for your failure to act, Nixzmary Brown would probably
not have died from that blow," and "By your own statements, she
gasped for air - moaning - and called for you twice until she died.
You, Mrs. Santiago, ignored the desperate calls and left this
little 7-year-old alone and you did nothing" and finally "You had a
duty to act. You were the mother." See Murder of Nixzmary Brown.
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