This is a list of current and former

state prisons This is a list of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): * Alabama * Alaska * Arizona * Arkansas * California * Colorado * Connecticut * Delaware * Florida ...

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

. These are overseen by the

Connecticut Department of Correction The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The agency operates 18 correctional facilities. It has its headquarters in Wethersfield. History The correctional syste ...

. This list does not include

federal prisons A federal prison is operated under the jurisdiction of a federal government as opposed to a state or provincial body. Federal prisons are used for convicts who violated federal law (U.S., Mexico), inmates considered dangerous (Brazil), or those se ...

located in the state of Connecticut. There are no county jails in Connecticut, all inmates are in custody of the Department of Correction. Inmate population is current as of December 2021. CT - DOC Facilities Map

* Bridgeport Correctional Center (inmate population 700) * Brooklyn Correctional Institution (inmate population 346) *

Cheshire Correctional Institution Cheshire Correctional Institution is a Connecticut Department of Correction state prison for men located in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut. The facility was built beginning in 1910, partly by the inmates of the Wethersfield State Prison, ...

(inmate population 1148) *

Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center The Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center is a Level 3 & 4 high-security prison with two facilities for male offenders, in the Uncasville section of Montville, Connecticut. The prison was opened on December 30, 1994. It is a part of the Connect ...

(inmate population 642) Radgowski building closed October 2021 * Garner Correctional Institution (inmate population 482) * Hartford Correctional Center (inmate population 937) *

MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution The MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution is a Level 4 & 5 (high & maximum) security level multi-mission facility for adult males, in Suffield, Connecticut. Based on its inmates population, it is the largest correctional facility in New Engla ...

(inmate population 1749) *

Manson Youth Institution Manson Youth Institution is a Connecticut Department of Correction state prison for men under the age of 21. It is located in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut New Haven County is a county in the south central part of the U.S. state of ...

(inmate population 298) * New Haven Correctional Center (inmate population 676) *

Osborn Correctional Institution Osborn Correctional Institution (OCI), formerly known as the Connecticut Correctional Institution – Somers, is a medium security state prison that includes a high security mental health unit for men of the Connecticut Department of Correction lo ...

(inmate population 1839) *

Robinson Correctional Institution The Carl Robinson Correctional Institution is a Connecticut Department of Correction state prison for men located in Enfield, Connecticut. The facility was opened in 1985 for medium-security inmates with a capacity of 880. Robinson is one of a c ...

(inmate population 644) *

Willard-Cybulski Correctional Institution The Willard-Cybulski Correctional Institution is a medium-security state prison for men in Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, owned and operated by the Connecticut Department of Correction. It houses a maximum of 1165 inmates. The facili ...

(inmate population 373) *

York Correctional Institution Janet S. York Correctional Institution is Connecticut's only state prison for women, located in Niantic. The facility opened in its current form in October, 1994, and houses a maximum of 1500 at a range of security levels from minimum to super max ...

(inmate population 588)

Closed facilities

Bergin Correctional Institution Bergin Correctional Institution was a low-security state prison for men in Storrs, Connecticut. It was built in 1988 as the Northeast Correctional Institution and received its first inmates on 13, 1989. After briefly closing in 1997 and reopening ...

(closed 2011) * Enfield Correctional Institution (closed 2018) * Gates Correctional Institution (closed 2011) * Niantic Annex (closed Jan 2016) *

Northern Correctional Institution Northern Correctional Institution (NCI) was a high-security state prison in Somers, in the northern part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Until its closure, the prison housed the state's male convicts serving long sentences for violent crimes; ...

(closed June 2021) * the colonial

Old Newgate Prison Old New-Gate Prison is a former prison and mine site on New-Gate Road in East Granby, Connecticut. It is now operated by the state of Connecticut as the Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine Archaeological Preserve. Previously closed for restoration ...

(closed 1827) * Webster Correctional Institution (closed 2010) *

Wethersfield State Prison Wethersfield State Prison was the second state prison in the state of Connecticut. Used between 1827 and 1963, it was later demolished and the site turned into a park on the banks of the Connecticut River. History Connecticut opened the Wethersf ...

(closed 1963)

References

External links

Connecticut Department of Correction
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Prisons A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correcti ...