Rowan Correctional Center

County: Rowan

Inmate capacity: 276

Inmate gender: Male

Custody level: Minimum

Staff size: 75

Administrator: Ted L. Thomas

Rowan Correctional Center

Mailing Address:
Box 1207
Salisbury NC 28145

Street Address:
4750 South Main St
Salisbury NC 28145

Phone: 704-639-7552
Fax: 704-639-7558

Facility #4540
Courier # 05-35-02

NC State Seal

Effective Dec. 1, 2009 Rowan Correctional Center becomes a minimum security unit attached to Piedmont Correctional Institution. Inmate mail should be sent to the Piedmont CI mailing address.

The Rowan Correctional Center, near Salisbury, is a minimum security prison for adult males.

Rowan was one of 51 county prisons for which the state assumed responsibility with the passage of the Conner Bill in 1931. It was one of 61 field unit prisons renovated or built during the late 1930’s to house inmates who worked building roads.

Original dormitories at the prison continue to house inmates today. In 1976, inmates built a 28 single cell unit for placing inmates in administrative and disciplinary segregation.

The General Assembly provided for a 50 bed dormitory in the $28.5 million Emergency Prison Facilities Development Program authorized in 1987. Lawmakers also provided another 50 bed dormitory as part of the $87.5 million prison construction program authorized in 1993.

Rowan-Cabarrus Community College works with the prison to provide classes for Brick Masonry School. Substance abuse programs are also available, the latest one being New Directions. The Transition Aftercare Network Program is also available at Rowan to assist in training inmates in coping and cognitive skills for a successful transition before and after release. Additionally, the Think Smart Program is offered wherein carefully selected and trained inmates speak in schools, to civic groups and other public gatherings, relating personal experiences leading to their confinement.

Inmates may work at a number of jobs. They may be assigned to work on Department of Transportation road crews or trash crew, or at the prison as maintenance, grounds, clothes house or kitchen help.

Rowan has two 10-men Community Work Crews who may be contracted by federal, state and/or local government agencies for work and one Litter Pickup Crew.

Also, this facility has a Work Release Program wherein qualified inmates are allowed to leave the prison each day to work within the community and then return to the unit when their work is finished.

Visitation for the regular population is conducted on Saturday only. Segregation-assigned inmates’ visitation is conducted Monday thru Friday by appointment only. All visitors must be on the approved Inmate Visitation List.

DIRECTIONS: Take I-85 to Salisbury, to Peeler Road, Exit 71. Take Peeler Road west for one mile to N.C. Highway 29. The unit sits at that intersection. Nearby is the Piedmont Correctional Institution.