Address: 1300 Western Boulevard, Raleigh, NC 27606
Phone: 919-733-0800
County: Wake
Offender capacity: 1104
Facility type: Male - Close, Medium and Minimum Custody
Central Prison houses male inmates in close custody and a variety of special populations including pre-trial safekeepers, death row offenders and those in long-term care medical care.
The facility is the main medical and mental health center for male inmates with a hospital complex that opened in 2011. It also operates a diagnostic center that admits special population offenders to the prison system.
Central Prison serves as the admission point into prison for adult male felons sentenced to 20 years or more, and is the main medical and mental health treatment center for male offenders. It also houses special control populations, including death row and safekeepers.
North Carolina's first state penitentiary opened at this site in 1884.