MD DOC – North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI)

MD DOC – North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 301-729-7400

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at MD DOC – North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI) located at 14100 McMullen Hwy Southwest in Cumberland, MD are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

MD DOC – North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI) – Visitation

North Branch Correctional Institution is located in Cumberland Maryland. It is a maximum security prison that has been renowned as the “world’s most technologically advanced correctional center”. North Branch Correctional Institution can house approximately 1,460 adult males, who have an average sentence of 10.5 years.

Inmates can take adult basic education classes and earn a GED while incarcerated. This facility also houses all of the death row inmates in the state.

visitation Info

Visiting Hours

Visitors must be registered by 12:30 p.m.

General Population ~ two (2) visits per week: 
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Administrative Segregation ~ two (2) visits per week:
Friday 
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 

Disciplinary Segregation ~ one (1) visit per week:
Friday 
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

General Information:

Use of restroom facilities is prohibited during visitation.  If either the inmate or a visitor requires the use of the restroom, the visit will be terminated at that time.  Please keep this in mind when visiting with small children.

All visitors are subject to canine (if available), electronic drug detection device (if available), and/or visual mouth searches prior to being allowed to visit an inmate. If you cannot clear the metal detector, you will be denied entry. Nothing may be brought into the institution except as authorized by the warden or designee. Any item brought into this institution in a manner other than authorized is contraband, and the person bringing the item into the institution is subject to criminal penalties.

A visitor 16 years of age and older must present photograph identification.

Children (18 years of age and younger) visiting the inmate must be immediate family to either the inmate or the visitor and must be accompanied by a person 18 years of age or older who is on the inmate's visiting list.

A maximum of four (4) visitors (including up to two (2) children under the age of 18) will be permitted to visit an inmate at one time.

Visitors must secure all cell phones, tobacco products and eletronic devices in their vehicle.

Inmates are only permitted one (1) visit per day.

Visitors under the age of 18 must be under adult supervision at all times while on State property to include parking areas.

Visitors 16 and older must be on the inmate's visiting list.