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Bertie Correctional Institution is a state men's prison in
Windsor, North Carolina Windsor is a town in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,630 at the 2010 census, up from 2,283 in 2000. It is the county seat of Bertie County, which is also the homeland of the Southern Band Tuscarora Tribe that rem ...
, first opened in August 2006, and operated by the
North Carolina Department of Public Safety The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) is an umbrella agency that carries out many of the state's law enforcement, emergency response and homeland security functions. The department was created in 1977 as the Department of Crime Co ...
. As one of the state's four largest prisons, the official capacity is 1,400 prisoners, all held in Close Custody. The site is near the
Cashie River This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of North Carolina. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries alphabetically indented under each larger stream's name. Atlantic Ocean * North Landing Rive ...
. As of March 2012 Bertie was one of six state prisons put on lockdown to squelch gang fights and coordinated gang activity. In May 2015 an excessive-force lawsuit brought by a Bertie inmate, Sammy Ussery, reached the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: * District of Maryla ...
. The court held that the officers' claim of
qualified immunity In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from civil suits unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statu ...
did not entitle them to a summary judgment. ''Ussery v. Mansfield, 786 F.3d 332'' (4th Cir. 2015)


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