NCDPS – Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women

NCDPS – Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 828-259-6000

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Swannanoa CC located at 55 Lake Eden Rd in Black Mountain, 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.

Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women opened on July 7, 2008. Women previously housed at Black Mountain Correctional Center for Women were transferred to Swannanoa on that date.

SCCW renovated four dormitories: Greenwood, Frye, Sloop and Gilliat. Renovations on the vocation building provided inmates with an educational classroom and an operating greenhouse. Renovations to the Buchanan building accommodated the increasing inmate population and offer more educational classrooms and a medical wing.

• NCDPS – Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women – Inmate Rule Book
• NCDPS – Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women -Offender Family Services
• NCDPS – Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women – 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 – Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women – Visitation

Visitation is on Saturdays from 8:30 – 10:30 a.m. and from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. according to inmates last names, A-K and L-Z.  

One group is in the morning, the other in the afternoon.  After six months, the groups rotate mornings and afternoons.   

DIRECTIONS – Take Interstate 40 West to exit 59 and turn right off the ramp to the traffic light. Turn right onto US 70 East. At the first intersection, turn left onto Whittson Avenue. At the stop sign, turn left onto Old US 70 to the first traffic light. Turn left onto Lake Eden Road. Turn left at Prisons Facility Sign onto access road, then left into the prison gate.