Two adjacent prisons are located in the community of Ray Brook, outside of Saranac Lake. The Adirondack Correctional Facility opened in 1900, originally as a state-run tuberculosis sanitarium. Its Victorian buildings were later used as housing for the 1980 Olympics, after which it was turned into a medium security state prison with a capacity of around 800. In a separate, modern compound just south of it is the Saranac Lake Correctional Institute, a medium security federal facility, which also opened after the 1980 Olympics, and houses around 800 male inmates. These are two of around six or so correctional facilities inside Adirondack Park.
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