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Eastern Correctional Institution
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Eastern Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Greene County, North Carolina. Rated capacity: 429. Reported population: 466. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Eastern Correctional Institution (ECI) is a medium-security state prison for men located in Westover, Somerset County, Maryland, owned and operated by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Eastern has a minimum-security Annex, completed in 1993, and housing some 560 inmates. The total capacity of the minimum- and medium-security sections is around 3,400. With an actual population of about 3,300, this is Maryland's largest prison. The facility is adjacent to the Somerset County Detention Center.
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Capacity
429
Current population
466
Occupancy
109%
Year opened
1987
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1987
Region
North Carolina
Security level
Medium
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 109% 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 (Q28446388)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Eastern Correctional Institution. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/eastern-correctional-institution
"Eastern Correctional Institution." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/eastern-correctional-institution.
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