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NC Correctional Institution for Women
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State correctional facility operated by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. Offender capacity: 1,776.
Background
North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women (NCCIW) is the primary North Carolina Department of Public Safety prison facility housing female inmates on a 30-acre (12 ha) campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves as a support facility for the six other women's prisons throughout the state. The facility's inmate population, which is the largest in the state, consists of inmates from all custody levels and control statuses including death row, maximum security, close custody, medium security, minimum security, and safekeepers.
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Capacity
1,776
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1938
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
North Carolina Department of Adult Correction
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1938
Region
NC
Security level
—
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
Compared to other facilities in United States
3276 peersData completeness
60%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- NC DAC — NC Correctional Institution for Women
- NC DAC Prison Facilities
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- North Carolina Department of Adult Correction — Prison Facilities — State of North Carolina
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.