Rivers Correctional Institution

Rivers Correctional Institution
Location 145 Parker's Fishery Road
Winton, North Carolina
Status open
Security class low security
Capacity 1450
Opened 2001
Managed by GEO Group

Rivers Correctional Institution is a privately owned prison in Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina, operated by GEO Group under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons since its construction in 2001.[1]

Its first inmates were transferred from the Lorton Reformatory of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections, which closed in 2001. Under the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, offenders of the District of Columbia at Rivers and elsewhere serve time in FBOP custody, although they committed no federal crime.[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.geogroup.com/maps/locationdetails/15
  2. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/14/AR2007101401420.html

Coordinates: 36°24′18″N 76°57′32″W / 36.405133°N 76.958842°W