NCDPS – Morrison Correctional Institution

NCDPS – Morrison Correctional Institution basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 910-281-3161

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Morrison CI located at 1573 McDonald Church Rd in Hoffman, NC 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.

Morrison Correctional Institution is located in Hoffman North Carolina. It is a medium security prison that houses 801 adult males. The prison is located on a 175-acre tract in Hoffman, near Rockingham. Medium custody inmates are housed in Aggrey, Bost, and Johnson dormitories. Minimum custody inmates are housed in Edwards, Jenkins, Auman and Newsome dormitories. The facility also has an administration building, two schools, a gym, two clothes houses and two dining halls, as well as a 20-cell unit for medium inmates and a 12-cell unit for minimum inmates.

Inmates attend school with instruction provided by Prisons teachers and Richmond Community College instructors. The prison provides vocational classes in brick masonry, electric service, industrial maintenance, upholstery, cooking school and office practices. Classes for adult education, preparation for the GED tests and college courses are available. Courses on life skills and substance abuse are also offered.

Morrison Youth Institution converted from a medium security prison for male youth to a medium security prison for adult males in January 2002 and was renamed Morrison Correctional Institution. In June 2003 Sandhills Youth Center was closed and the minimum custody youthful offender population was moved to the old Impact unit and placed under the management of Morrison Correctional Institution.

Morrison's history began in 1923 when lawmakers authorized the State Training School for Negro Boys at Hoffman. Construction work was started in 1924 and the facility opened in 1925 housing eight youth. In 1939, the name was changed to Morrison Training School in honor of Governor Cameron Morrison. The name was changed again in 1969 to Cameron Morrison School.

The training school closed and the facility reopened as a prison in 1977. Morrison and Sandhills Youth Center were organized as the Sandhills Youth Complex. In 1978, three of Morrison's dormitories were converted to house 100 women inmates. The Sandhills Youth Complex was then composed of Sandhills Youth Center, Cameron Morrison Youth Center and Cameron Morrison Youth Center for Females.

In 1983, the Sandhills Youth Complex was dissolved. The following year, the women inmates were moved to Fountain Correctional Center for Women. Minimum custody males then moved into the Auman and Edwards dorms left vacant by the women inmates. Three wings in Newsome dormitory were left vacant because of poor physical conditions. (Newsome dorm and an administrative building were renovated in 1989 to house the state's first boot camp program.)

In October 1988, Cameron Morrison Youth Center's name was changed to Morrison Youth Institution.

Lawmakers provided funding for the building of a 208 bed dormitory and a 20-cell segregation unit to be added at Morrison as part of the $87.5 million prison construction program authorized in 1993. Ground was broken May 4, 1994 for a chapel funded with money raised by prison volunteers.

From 1988 to 2002, Morrison Youth Institution served as a medium security prison for young male felons, 18 to 21 years of age. In January 2002, Morrison was converted to a medium security for adult males, and renamed Morrison Correctional Institution, to help meet the state's growing need for adult male prison bed space. The youth inmates transferred to other youth prison facilities. In July 2002, Impact East was closed and was reopened in June 2003 to house minimum security youthful offenders.

Inmates in all units can receive substance abuse treatment and educational courses to obtain an adult basic education and GED. Morrison Correctional Institution has vocational programming available to inmates that include electrical wiring, upholstery, culinary arts, clerical skills, industrial maintenance, and masonry.

NCDPS – Morrison Correctional Institution – Inmate Rule Book
NCDPS – Morrison Correctional Institution – Offender Family Services
NCDPS – Morrison Correctional Institution – Inmate Programs

Local calls will be a flat rate of $1.25
All long distance calls will be a flat rate of $3.40

visitation Info

NCDPS – Morrison Correctional Institution – Visitation

Each visitation session can last two hours. Visitation schedules are subject to periodic change and are conducted on Saturdays as follows: 

MINIMUM CUSTODY VISITATION HOURS FOR JANUARY – MARCH, JULY – SEPTEMBER

MINIMUM CUSTODY VISITATION HOURS FOR APRIL – JUNE,  OCTOBER – DECEMBER

NEWSOME INCENTIVE BUILDING VISITATION

MEDIUM CUSTODY VISITATION HOURS FOR JANUARY – APRIL

MEDIUM CUSTODY VISITATION HOURS FOR MAY – AUGUST

MEDIUM CUSTODY VISITATION HOURS FOR SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER

Non-contact visitation will be by appointment only. Special visits will be scheduled on a case-by-case basis.