[2] Fishkill houses approximately 1,800 inmates, operates as the Regional Medical Unit for southern New York's prisons, and offers a range of educational programs, including Pre-General Equivalency Diploma (Pre-GED), General Equivalency Diploma (GED), English as a Second Language (ESL), Associates of Arts in Liberal Arts through the Bard Prison Initiative, Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management through a partnership between Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison and Nyack College.

There is an indoor basketball court, and in the basement a weight room, with inmate staff keeping track of equipment, which has to be checked out.

The facility also houses the Fishkill Specialty Steel division of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's Corcraft Industries.

The programs produces custom sheet metal products, classroom desks and various other items of steel that are used in schools across the state, prisons, mental health facilities, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the New York City Department of Sanitation.

[4] Oprah Winfrey filmed a segment at Fishkill Correctional Facility on the prison's Puppies Behind Bars program.

They also fabricate to-order heavy gauge specialty items such as security doors and windows for correctional and psychiatric institutions.