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East Jersey State Prison
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East Jersey State Prison is a state prison located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Rated capacity: 1,227. Reported population: 1,203. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
East Jersey State Prison (formerly "Rahway State Prison") is a maximum security prison operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections in Avenel, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. It was established in 1896 as Rahway State Prison, and was the first reformatory in New Jersey, officially opening in 1901. It housed 1,227 inmates as of 2020. As of 2025, its population is now 1,049.
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Capacity
1,227
Current population
1,203
Occupancy
98%
Year opened
1901
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1901
Region
New Jersey
Security level
Maximum
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
1/100
Low concern1/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
This facility scores 1. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 1 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 98% · peers avg: 93% (+6%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1227 · peers avg: 547 (+124%)
Reports
- marshall-project4 Aug 2022
the things I need before I break down and ask anybody for anything. You learn to do whatever you can to get by. Richard Spillane, 61 Job : Building sanitation worker Location : East Jersey State Prison, Woodbridge, New Jersey Monthly income : $15 My official job is essentially a sinecure. The prison doesn’t have enough jobs to go around, so many inmates, like me, are assigned to “building
Data 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
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q3403968)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). East Jersey State Prison. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/east-jersey-state-prison
Chicago
"East Jersey State Prison." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/east-jersey-state-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-east-jersey-state-prison,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {East Jersey State Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/east-jersey-state-prison},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}