Lumberton Correctional Institution Inmate Search

Lumberton Correctional Institution Overview

Lumberton Correctional Institution is operated by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. NCDAC identifies the prison as a medium-custody male institution at 75 Legend Road in Lumberton. It holds adult male sentenced state-prison offenders. It is physically close to the sheriff's detention center, but it is not operated by the Robeson County Sheriff's Office and does not use the Robeson Police2Citizen inmate catalog.

People can arrive at Lumberton CI after state prison processing, after promotion from higher security custody, or after demotion from lower security custody. NCDAC describes a campus-style prison with seven buildings, six dormitories, a 20-cell segregation unit, an administration building, a vocational building, and a gatehouse. The facility's local identity is tied to Robeson Community College programming and to work assignments that include Department of Transportation road squads, maintenance, and kitchen duties.

The official NCDAC Lumberton Correctional Institution page is the source for the facility image below.

The screenshot reflects the state source used for capacity, custody level, address, phone, warden, and institutional program details.

Lumberton Correctional Institution Capacity and Population

NCDAC lists Lumberton Correctional Institution with an offender capacity of 768 and a medium custody level. A Dec. 30, 2025 NCDAC release naming Shawn Britt as warden described the facility as serving about 750 adult men. Those figures refer to state-prison custody, not to the Robeson County jail population. A person transferred from the county jail to Lumberton CI should stop being treated as a pretrial jail detainee for lookup purposes and should be searched in NCDAC offender tools.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Lumberton Correctional Institution

Use the NCDAC Offender Public Information Search for Lumberton Correctional Institution. NCDAC says this public search covers North Carolina state prison offenders, probationers, parolees, and historical records back to 1972. NCDAC also states that it does not include local, county, or city jail information. That means the Robeson P2C roster is the wrong first stop for someone already assigned to Lumberton CI.

1. Open the NCDAC Offender Public Information Search form.
2. Select a useful offender status, such as Active Inmate, or leave the status broader if the person's status is uncertain.
3. Search by last name and first name, or by the numeric offender number if known.
4. Use date of birth, age range, race, gender, or ethnicity filters carefully when there are many similar names.
5. Open the matching profile and verify that the current facility is Lumberton Correctional Institution before relying on visitation, mail, or money instructions.

The NCDAC form validates entries. Gender alone is not enough, offender number must be numeric, and birth dates must follow the MM/DD/YYYY format. If the person is still awaiting trial in Robeson County, search Robeson P2C instead. If the person is in federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator. If the issue is an immigration transfer, use ICE ODLS.

Lumberton Correctional Institution Address and Contact

Use the NCDAC facility contact for prison-specific custody, visitation, legal visit, mail, and program questions. Attorneys requesting legal visits have a dedicated email address in the research. Family members should confirm approval, scheduling, and current facility rules before making travel plans.

Visiting Someone at Lumberton Correctional Institution

Lumberton CI follows NCDAC prison visitation rules rather than county jail kiosk visitation. The research identifies a legal-visit email for attorneys and says general visiting information should be taken from NCDAC visiting resources linked from the facility page. The available research did not include a Lumberton-specific public weekly visiting table, so do not assume a day or time from the county jail or from Robeson CRV. Prison visitors normally need approval and must follow current NCDAC scheduling, identification, dress, and facility entry rules.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Lumberton Correctional Institution

Money, phone, tablets, packages, and mail at Lumberton CI follow NCDAC rules. NCDAC partners with ViaPath and subsidiaries for web, mobile, phone, and walk-in deposits, and says electronic methods make money available the next business day. Only approved visitors for the offender may deposit funds. Money orders are cost-free, but must be sent with a deposit slip to TouchPay rather than to the prison facility.

Admission and Classification at Lumberton Correctional Institution

Lumberton CI is not a street-arrest booking facility. A person normally reaches this prison after sentencing, commitment, state processing, transfer, promotion from higher security, or demotion from lower security. State prison admission and movement are controlled by NCDAC, and the public signal for families is the offender's current-facility field in the NCDAC locator. Court charges, bond, and first-appearance records belong to the North Carolina Judicial Branch and Robeson County court channels, while prison custody, sentence, and facility assignment belong to NCDAC.

If an offender recently left the Robeson County Sheriff's Office Detention Center, there can be a timing gap while county release, transfer, and state intake records update. During that period, check Robeson P2C, NCDAC OPI, NC SAVAN/VINELink, and the sentencing court record rather than assuming a missing online result means a release.

About Lumberton Correctional Institution

NCDAC says Lumberton CI opened in November 1994 with 312 beds. Three additional dormitories opened shortly afterward in 1995, and the research notes construction funding through 1992, 1993, and 1994 prison construction programs. The prison's campus-style layout includes dormitory housing, segregation cells, administration, vocational space, and a gatehouse.

Programs are a major local detail. Robeson Community College provides basic education, GED preparation, and vocational classes including electrical wiring, carpentry, heating, and air conditioning repair. NCDAC's 2025 warden release also described rehabilitative programs ranging from high school equivalency to horticulture, electrical, and HVAC courses. Offender work assignments include Department of Transportation road squads, maintenance, and kitchen duties. A dental clinic serves Lumberton CI and nearby prisons.

NC SAVAN/VINELink can be used as a notification fallback for state prisoners, and NCDAC ASQ can generate statistical reports for offender populations. Those tools are separate from the named-person offender search and separate from the Robeson County jail roster.