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Law Enforcement Center

The long awaited opening of the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center (UCLEC) took place on February 17th 2007.  The facility was built to alleviate serious overcrowding conditions at the old County Jail and also as a headquarters for the Sheriff’s Patrol and Civil Divisions, which had been at a separate location.   The detention facility itself was designed as a state of the art direct supervision model for housing inmates.  The rated capacity is 426 inmates being supervised by 153 mandated security staff.  The facility itself has built-in design features that enable it to be expanded to a new higher capacity of 502 by double bunking.  Currently inmates are being boarded-in from surrounding counties and other New York State counties, which earns additional revenues for Ulster .