NCDPS – Sanford Correctional Center

NCDPS – Sanford Correctional Center basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 919-776-4325

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Sanford CC located at 417 Advancement Center Rd in Sanford, 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.

Sanford Correctional Center is a minimum security prison that houses 298 adult male inmates. The majority of the inmates are assigned to jobs, and many of these inmates leave the prison to work off-site daily.

Sanford Correctional Center provides work opportunities for inmates that include road crews, recycling crews, culinary duties, landscaping, and custodial work. Inmates can also receive an adult basic education and obtain a GED while incarcerated here.

Inmates are assigned to one of the following jobs: Department of Transportation squads in Lee, Harnett and Moore counties, litter crews where a correctional officer supervises as many as 10 inmates in short-term manual labor for local and state agencies, Correction Enterprises Sign Recycling plant at the old Moore Correctional Center, labor contracts with local governments, and work release jobs in Lee County. Sanford Correctional Center provides the inmate workforce for the Office of Staff Development and Training located in Apex. All other inmates work on jobs at the prison in the kitchen, or as janitors or groundskeepers. Sanford Correctional Center offers a Masonry Program through Central Carolina Community College.

Night programs include Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Yokefellow Bible study and religious services. Central Carolina Community College provides classes for adult education and preparation for GED tests.

HISTORY – Sanford was one of 61 field unit prisons renovated or built during the late 1930s to house inmates who worked building roads. It was later used as a training center for officers and, in the 1970s, was converted back to a prison field unit.

The General Assembly provided two 50-bed dormitories for Sanford as part of the $28.5 million Emergency Prison Facilities Development program authorized in 1987. Lawmakers provided two additional 50-bed dormitories as part of the $87.5 million prison construction program authorized in 1993.

The prison's original dormitory is still in use. Two dormitories opened in 1987 and two more in 1993. The four new dormitories each house 63 prisoners. the older unit houses 46.

• NCDPS – Sanford Correctional Institution – Inmate Rule Book
• NCDPS – Sanford Correctional Institution – Offender Family Services
• NCDPS – Sanford Correctional Institution – Inmate Programs

visitation Info

NCDPS – Sanford Correctional Institution – Visitation

Visitation is on a monthly rotation by the first letter of the inmate's last name and is from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. and 2 – 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The schedule via alphabet is broken up A-D, E-K, L-Q, R-Z. Please call the facility for specific times at (919) 776-4325.

Special visits may be approved by the Superintendent or designee.

DIRECTIONS – Take U.S. 1 South to the Colon Road exit and turn left. Stay on Colon Road, which will become 7th Street. The unit is located on the right near the intersection of 7th Street and Bragg Street.