Wende Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison located in the town of Alden in Erie County, New York, east of Buffalo.

As of November 6, 2020, 31 prisoners had tested positive for COVID-19; one of the first confirmed infections was that of recently sentenced movie executive Harvey Weinstein.

[4] David McClary, convicted of murdering police officer Edward Byrne, spent three years in solitary confinement while at Wende.

[6] In 2002, Judge Alan Winick, of Nassau County Supreme Court, ruled that the settlement would be awarded to Byrne's family.

[7] In 2003, Wende officers ordered that Muslim prisoner Darryl Holland produce a urine sample in a three-hour window for a drug test.