Wende Correctional Facility

Notable inmates

• Jack Abbott - criminal and author. He committed suicide at Wende in 2002.
• Jimmy Burke - mastermind of the Lufthansa Heist. Burke was imprisoned in Wende until his death in 1996.
• Robert Chambers - the "Preppie Killer." He was imprisoned in Wende in 2008 and later transferred to Sullivan Correctional Facility.
• Mark David Chapman - the man who murdered John Lennon in 1980. Chapman was transferred from Attica Correctional Facility to Wende in 2012.
• David Gilbert - participant in the 1981 Brink's robbery and murders. Is currently incarcerated at Wende.
• David Sweat - a man who killed a Broome County sheriff's officer and then led an escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015, was transferred to Wende in April, 2018.
• Maksim Gelman - perpetrator of a 28-hour stabbing spree lasting from February 11 to 12, 2011, in New York City, which involved the killing of four people and the wounding of five others.
• Harvey Weinstein - former film producer and convicted sex offender serving a 23-year sentence. Awaiting another trial in Los Angeles.