United States · North Carolina · Taylorsville
Alexander Correctional Institution
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Alexander Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Alexander County, North Carolina. Rated capacity: 1,180. Reported population: 1,180. Security level: Close. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Alexander Correctional Institution (AXCI) is a North Carolina Department of Public Safety state prison for men, located in Taylorsville, North Carolina. The facility opened in 2004 as one of three 1000-bed Close Custody prisons built in the state. The institution is a Close Custody prison, used mainly for housing felons. Inmates are assigned to one of four internal units: the Blue Unit for transferring prisoners and those with chronic health issues, Red Unit for security risk group and Mental Health prisoners, Green Unit for inmates on internal work assignments, and a Restrictive Housing Unit for disciplinary purposes.
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Capacity
1,180
Current population
1,180
Occupancy
100%
Year opened
2004
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
North Carolina Department of Corrections
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2004
Region
North Carolina
Security level
Close
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 5/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 100% of design capacity
Compared to other facilities in United States
7324 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- North Carolina Department of Adult Correction â Prison Facilities — State of North Carolina
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata (Q16159213)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.