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Nash Correctional Institution Overview

Nash Correctional Institution is operated by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, usually shortened to NCDAC. The official facility page lists it as a male medium custody and reentry facility in Nashville, North Carolina. It is separate from the sheriff-operated Nash County Detention Facility. That difference is central for inmate lookup: the county jail handles local arrests and short local custody, while Nash Correctional Institution houses sentenced adult male state-prison offenders assigned through NCDAC classification and placement.

NCDAC lists the street address as 2869 US 64 Alt., Nashville, NC 27856, the mailing address as PO Box 600, Nashville, NC 27856, the phone number as 252-459-4455, the offender capacity as 654, and the current warden as Talena Lee. NCDAC describes the facility type as "Male - Medium Custody, Reentry Facility." The prison is therefore not a place to call for a fresh Nash County booking unless the person has already moved into state custody after sentencing or is otherwise listed in the state offender system.

The official NCDAC Nash Correctional Institution page shows the facility type, capacity, warden, contact details, campus description, work plants, and history.

Use the NCDAC facility page for institutional details, then use the statewide offender locator for a person-specific custody record.

Nash Correctional Institution Capacity and Population

NCDAC publishes an offender capacity of 654 for Nash Correctional Institution. Capacity is not the same as a live occupied count. The official facility page reviewed for this build did not publish a current daily population number, and no current institution-level occupancy dashboard was captured in the local research. For that reason, the page should not state that 654 people are currently housed there. It should state that 654 is the NCDAC capacity figure.

The prison population at Nash Correctional Institution is made up of sentenced adult male offenders in medium custody and reentry programming. A person may be assigned there based on sentence, custody level, medical and mental-health needs, programming, bed availability, and classification. Nash County residents sentenced to prison do not automatically go to Nash Correctional Institution, and people housed at the prison are not necessarily from Nash County. The statewide locator is the correct way to confirm whether a specific offender is currently assigned to Nash Correctional Institution.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Nash Correctional Institution

Use the NCDAC Offender Public Information Search for Nash Correctional Institution. NCDAC says its public offender search covers state prison offenders, probationers, parolees, and historical information back to 1972. NCDAC also states that the locator does not include county jail information. That means it is the right system for Nash Correctional Institution, but it is the wrong system for a newly booked person still in Nash County jail custody.

1. Open the NCDAC Offender Public Information Search, not a county jail roster.
2. Search by offender number if available, or search by last name and first name. The form also includes status, gender, race, ethnic group, birth date, birth-date range, and age-range filters.
3. Review matches carefully. The form requires meaningful search criteria and has validation rules for name, offender number, gender-only searches, sounds-like searches, and birth-date range searches.
4. Open the matching offender profile and confirm the current facility, offender status, and other public state correction information.
5. If the record shows a different prison, probation, parole, inactive status, or release, follow the state profile rather than assuming the person is at Nash Correctional Institution.

Nash Correctional Institution Address and Contact

Nash Correctional Institution uses a street address for the facility and a separate mailing address listed by NCDAC. Family, visitors, attorneys, and public users should distinguish between the facility contact address, the offender mail process, and money-order processing, because NCDAC routes those functions differently. Call the prison before travel or before relying on a visit schedule, especially because NCDAC instructs visitors to confirm visit status the day before a scheduled visit.

Visiting Someone at Nash Correctional Institution

Nash Correctional Institution follows statewide NCDAC prison visitation rules. Visits are by appointment only. NCDAC says visitors must be approved before visiting, and offenders obtain blank visitor applications and mail them to proposed visitors. Adults and minors need completed applications. Applicants age 16 and older must attach approved photo ID, and minors under 16 need a birth certificate copy. Each offender may have up to 18 approved visitors, while legal, law-enforcement, consular, family, and juvenile officials register through separate processes that do not count toward that limit.

NCDAC visitation rules include identification, search procedures, contraband rules, and device restrictions. Visitors age 16 and older are subject to pat/frisk and electronic-device searches, and refusal means entrance can be denied. Cell phones are prohibited from prison facilities. NCDAC also says visitors should call the prison the day before a scheduled visit to confirm status because lockdowns, operational needs, or other facility conditions can affect visitation.

The statewide visitation source is shown in this NCDAC screenshot from the prison visitation rules page.

The rules apply statewide, so use them with the Nash Correctional Institution phone number when confirming a specific appointment.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Nash Correctional Institution

NCDAC non-legal mail uses TextBehind, not the county jail's scanned-mail address. The correct format from the research is Offender Name and OPUS Number, Nash Correctional Institution, PO Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131. TextBehind scans and digitizes mail for tablet delivery. The NCDAC offender-mail page is the controlling source for mail rules and should be checked before sending photos, cards, or other correspondence.

Money also follows NCDAC rules. NCDAC partners with ViaPath, TouchPay, and ConnectNetwork for web, mobile, phone, and walk-in deposits, and the research notes that only approved visitors may deposit funds. Web, mobile, phone, and walk-in deposits are described as available the next business day. Money orders remain cost-free but go to TouchPay with a deposit slip at TouchPay Holdings, LLC, PO Box 174, Houston, TX 77001-0174. Prison facilities do not accept or process those money orders. Packages use Union Supply Group as NCDAC's exclusive package vendor.

The NCDAC offender mail page explains the TextBehind process and OPUS-number addressing.

TextBehind is separate from the Nash County jail mail process, so use it only for people in NCDAC custody.

Admission and Classification at Nash Correctional Institution

Nash Correctional Institution does not book people straight from a street arrest the way a local jail does. A person usually enters NCDAC custody after conviction and sentencing to an active state prison term, then moves through state intake and classification before placement. Once the person is in NCDAC custody, the county jail phone is no longer the primary place to confirm housing. The state locator and the facility's NCDAC profile become the controlling sources.

Placement at Nash Correctional Institution depends on correctional factors that may include custody level, sentence, sex, medical and mental-health needs, programming, classification, and bed availability. The facility is listed for adult male medium custody and reentry. NCDAC's locator may show an offender's current location, status, and state correction information, but it should not be treated as a county arrest record or as a court docket. Court dates and case filings belong in the North Carolina eCourts Portal and clerk channels, while state prison status belongs in NCDAC.

About Nash Correctional Institution

NCDAC gives unusually specific campus details for Nash Correctional Institution. The campus consists of 15 buildings, including medical facilities, vocational and recreational buildings, a gatehouse, dining hall, chapel, a 20-cell segregation unit, and four 128-cell housing units. Those details fit the facility's role as a state prison and reentry facility, not a local booking jail.

The facility history dates to 1938, when the first prison on the site opened as Nash Prison Unit, a close custody facility. In the early 1960s, the site moved through misdemeanor, medium custody, and minimum custody functions. It was renamed Nash Advancement Center in 1970 and Nash Correctional Center in 1988. The site became part of the newly built Nash Correctional Institution in 1992, and NCDAC says the old Nash Correctional Center facility is used for training and storage.

Nash Correctional Institution also has work and reentry programming details that are specific to the prison. Offenders can work in two Correction Enterprises industrial plants: the Nash Print Plant, which produces documents and publications for state and local government agencies, and the Optical Plant, which manufactures eyeglasses for offenders, Medicaid patients, and state employees. NCDAC also identifies the Field Minister Education Program as a partnership with Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Joe Gibbs' Game Plan for Life organization to educate inmates as field ministers within the prison system.

North Carolina VINE can still be useful for custody-status notifications, but it does not replace NCDAC's profile data for a state prisoner. Use North Carolina VINE for notification support and use the NCDAC locator when the question is whether a person is housed at Nash Correctional Institution.