The Western Correctional Institution is a maximum security state prison for men located in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. It opened in 1996 and has an official capacity of 1793. Western Correctional Institution is close to two other correctional facilities: the high-tech "hyper max"

North Branch Correctional Institution North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI) is a high-tech, maximum security prison or "hyper-max prison" operated by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in Cresaptown, unincorporated Allegany County, Maryland, ...

first opened as an extension of Western which, later was officially separated in 2003, and the Allegany County Detention Center. A third prison, the Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland, is located in the same county.

Notable inmates

Current

* Nicholas Waggoner Browning – murdered his parents and two younger brothers in 2008. * James Allen Kulbicki – Baltimore City police officer found guilty of murdering his mistress. Story turned into the 1996 TV movie "Double Jeopardy". * Michael Thompson, another Baltimore cop found guilty of murder. He could have got the death penalty but is facing life in jail.

Former

* Joe Metheny – serial killer – died of natural causes in 2017 at Western Correctional Institution.

References

{{State prisons in Maryland 1996 establishments in Maryland Buildings and structures in Allegany County, Maryland Cumberland, Maryland Prisons in Maryland