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Bertie Correctional Institution
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Bertie Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Bertie County, North Carolina. Rated capacity: 1,504. Reported population: 1,504. Security level: Close. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Bertie Correctional Institution is a state men's prison in Windsor, North Carolina, first opened in August 2006, and operated by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. As one of the state's four largest prisons, the official capacity is 1,400 prisoners, all held in Close Custody. The site is near the Cashie River. As of March 2012 Bertie was one of six state prisons put on lockdown to squelch gang fights and coordinated gang activity. In May 2015 an excessive-force lawsuit brought by a Bertie inmate, Sammy Ussery, reached the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,504
Current population
1,504
Occupancy
100%
Year opened
2006
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2006
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
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 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
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- North Carolina Department of Adult Correction â Prison Facilities — State of North Carolina
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q25346023)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Bertie Correctional Institution. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/bertie-correctional-institution
"Bertie Correctional Institution." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/bertie-correctional-institution.
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