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Hudson County Correctional Facility

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Background

Hudson County Correctional Facility (HCCF) is a prison operated by Hudson County, New Jersey located in Kearny, New Jersey. It houses separate wards for women and men. The facility is one of the many regional centers used by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the New York metropolitan area.

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Capacity

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1845

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 28 May 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1845

Region

NJ

Security level

Minimum

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

A former inmate described spending two years in administrative segregation at the Hudson County Correctional Facility, characterizing the conditions as some of the worst experienced during their incarceration. The individual reported that their cell was cold and cramped, forcing them to listen to sports radio to pass the time.

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Practical info

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Known issues

The facility has been associated with allegations of poor detention conditions, specifically regarding the use of prolonged solitary confinement in administrative segregation units. A former detainee described the experience in ad-seg as extremely harsh, citing cold and cramped living quarters.

Contact & address

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Conditions Risk Score

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11/100
Low concern11/100
Overcrowding
0/30
Oversight reports
1/30
Structural flags
5/15
Death signals
5/15
Conditions text
0/10

What the score is responding to:

  • · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
  • · Substantial documented known-issues record
  • · In-custody-death signal in sources

This facility scores 11. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 9 points above national average.

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Reports

  • marshall-project10 Feb 2023

    e stern lawmen of my childhood. I n the ‘90s, my parents moved to the United States to join the rest of our family. In 2002, due to some unlikely circumstances, I found myself in Hudson County Correctional Facility, arrested for murder. At that time, 9/11 was still raw for people, and the so-called War on Terror was raging. As a Pakistani Muslim American, my pleas of innocence went unheard. My

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  • marshall-project9 Sept 2021

    Before I was convicted of a robbery-related double homicide that I have consistently denied, I spent two years in the administrative segregation (ad-seg) unit of New Jersey’s Hudson County Correctional Facility. Those years in solitary confinement were some of the worst I’ve had in my 18 years of incarceration. To pass the time in my cold, cramped cell, I would listen to the New York sports

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Data completeness

38%

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World Prisons. (2026). Hudson County Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hudson-county-correctional-facility
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"Hudson County Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hudson-county-correctional-facility.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-hudson-county-correctional-,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Hudson County Correctional Facility},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hudson-county-correctional-facility},
  urldate = {2026-10-23}
}