The Northern Correctional Institution is the designated restrictive housing facility for the Connecticut Department of Correction, managing those inmates who have demonstrated a serious inability to adjust to confinement posing a threat to the safety and security of the community, staff and other inmates.
The Northern Correctional Institution provides a highly structured, secure and humane environment while affording inmates an opportunity through positive behavior and program participation to return to a less restrictive facility.
The Security Risk Group Safety Threat Member program was relocated from the Garner Correctional Institution in order to centralize restrictive housing functions. In response to this, and with a commensurate increase in the number of young offenders, the facility more than doubled the size of its educational staff in order to serve those inmates who fall under federal mandates and require special education.
Description of Administrative Segregation and Close Custody Programs (PDF, 102 KB)
This is Connecticut's only level 5 maximum-security facility for adult male inmates. It is situated on 20-acres immediately adjacent to the Osborn Correctional Institution.
Present staffing: 310.
Listing of the inmate programs available at this facility (PDF, 268 KB).
Visiting Schedule (PDF, 11 KB).
It was completed in January of 1995 and received its first inmates in March of 1995.
In 1995, Connecticut's death row inmates were moved to the Northern Correctional Institution from the Osborn Correctional Institution where they were previously housed.
February of 1997 marked the arrival of the Chronic Disciplinary Unit.
November of 1999 marked the arrival of the Special Risk Group Threat population.
In November of 2000, the Chronic Disciplinary Unit was removed from the facility.
In September of 2004, the Chronic Disciplinary Unit was returned to Northern CI