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Edna Mahan Correctional Facility For Women
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Edna Mahan Correctional Facility For Women is a state prison located in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Rated capacity: 648. Reported population: 646. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (formerly the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women) is an American prison facility for women of the state of New Jersey Department of Corrections, located in Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, near Clinton. Its official abbreviation is EMCFW. The facility was named for Edna Mahan (b. 1900, pronounced Mann), one of the first female correctional superintendents in the U.S. The current administrator is William Hauck; he has served in that position for four years. As of February 2009, the prison held 950 inmates in maximum, medium, and minimum security sections. As of June 2021, the prison housed 378 inmates.
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Capacity
648
Current population
646
Occupancy
100%
Year opened
1913
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1913
Region
New Jersey
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
[doj-cripa 2020-01-01 — Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (New Jersey)] conditions of confinement at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (Edna Mahan), the women’s prison located in the conditions that we have reasonable cause to believe violate the Constitution. We also believe may remedy, those alleged conditions. believe that conditions at Edna Mahan violate the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution and that New Jersey fails to keep women prisoners at Edna Mahan reasonably safe from staff sexual General may initiate a lawsuit under CRIPA to correct the alleged conditions we have identified Administrator, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
this letter. 42 U.S.C. § 1997c(b)(l)(A).
Practical info
forward to working with you to address the alleged violations of law we have identified. The
Known issues
[doj-cripa 2020-01-01 — Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (New Jersey)] Clinton, New Jersey, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. Consistent with the statutory requirements of CRIPA, we provide this Notice of the conditions that we have reasonable cause to believe violate the Constitution. We also believe that conditions at Edna Mahan violate the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution and that these violations are pursuant to a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of rights protected by the Eighth Amendment.
Notable inmates
- Julie Rizzitello1988 · secondary school teacher
Melanie McGuire1972Melanie Lyn McGuire (née Slate; born October 8, 1972) is an American former nurse who was convicted of the murder of her husband.
- Amy Locane1971 · actor
Amy Locane is an American retired actress known for her role in John Waters' 1990 musical comedy Cry-Baby.
Diane Downs1955 · mail carrierElizabeth Diane Downs (née Frederickson, born August 7, 1955) is an American woman who murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children on May 19, 1983, in Oregon.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Documented human-rights cases
- Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (New Jersey)2020-01-01 · Eighth Amendment / Fourteenth Amendment (US Constitution) â CRIPA · violation
Named subject of CRIPA investigation
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Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
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
92%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 (Q5340067)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Edna Mahan Correctional Facility For Women. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/edna-mahan-correctional-facility-for-women
"Edna Mahan Correctional Facility For Women." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/edna-mahan-correctional-facility-for-women.
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