Locate Edna Mahan Correctional Facility Inmates

Edna Mahan Prison Overview

Edna Mahan Correctional Facility is operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections at 30 Route 513, Clinton, NJ 08809. It is the state prison physically located in Hunterdon County, but it does not function as Hunterdon County's pretrial jail. The facility holds sentenced women in NJDOC custody. A person arrested in Hunterdon County may appear first in the Hunterdon current-population PDF and may be housed at Warren County Correctional Center before trial. Only after a state sentence and NJDOC admission would the state-prison locator become the correct search path.

This distinction is essential because families often see the Clinton address and assume Edna Mahan is a county jail. It is not. County jail records and recent booking records use Hunterdon and Warren channels. Edna Mahan records use NJDOC's statewide search, NJDOC correspondence rules, NJDOC visitation scheduling, JPay money options, and GTL phone systems. The facility is also part of a reform and closure process tied to New Jersey's plan for a new women's correctional facility.

Edna Mahan Population

NJDOC relocation material from October 2023 said Edna Mahan's open units could accommodate up to 536 incarcerated persons. The same material described major movement in the full-minimum population. Building 1 at the satellite unit housed approximately 105 incarcerated persons and had operational capacity of 192. Building 2 received about 71 full-minimum residents and also had operational capacity of 192. After those transfers, the original grounds retained a higher-security unit and mixed-use space.

Edna Mahan Inmate Lookup

Use the NJDOC Incarcerated Person Search for Edna Mahan Correctional Facility. NJDOC says the search is provided for public safety and access to selected offender information under New Jersey public-records law. The locator is updated biweekly, and NJDOC warns that custody data may change quickly. NJDOC also states that phone inquiries about offender information are not honored. Written questions go to the NJDOC Correspondence Unit at PO Box 863, Trenton, NJ 08625.

The NJDOC search screen is the correct source for sentenced state-prison custody, not the Hunterdon County PDF. The screenshot below is from the official NJDOC locator, which is the system to use when a woman is in state custody at Edna Mahan or another NJDOC facility.

The locator may show facility, identifier, selected custody data, release or sentence fields when present, and update warnings, but NJDOC can exclude some offenders at agency or law-enforcement discretion.

1. Open the NJDOC Incarcerated Person Search and acknowledge the posted disclaimer.
2. Search by SBI number, DOC number, or name fields when identifiers are not known.
3. Review the profile for current facility or location, keeping the biweekly update warning in mind.
4. Send written offender-information questions to NJDOC Correspondence Unit instead of calling for profile details.
5. Use the county jail path only for recent Hunterdon arrests or pretrial county custody.

Edna Mahan Contact

The main facility phone is useful for general facility routing and the visitation extension is used for scheduling. NJDOC visitation material lists the scheduling line as available Monday through Thursday during business hours. Offender-information questions, however, are different. NJDOC says phone inquiries about offender information cannot be honored, so profile questions should be handled in writing through the correspondence address.

Edna Mahan Visits

Edna Mahan visits follow NJDOC state-prison rules, not Warren County jail visit rules. NJDOC lists scheduling by phone at 908-735-7111 ext. 3318, Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Schedules are separated by unit, and non-contact window visits have their own blocks. Visitors should confirm approval, unit, schedule, identification rules, and any limit changes before travel because the facility is in an active relocation and reform period.

The NJDOC visitation page includes Edna Mahan's schedule by unit. The captured image shows the state visitation source used for this facility page.

The schedule should be checked close to the visit date because NJDOC can revise visits by unit, status, staffing, or facility security need.

Edna Mahan Mail Money

Edna Mahan communications and money rules are NJDOC systems. NJDOC offender information routes families to JPay for funds and related services, and to GTL phone options for calls. JPay supports online, app, live-agent, walk-in cash, MoneyGram, and money-order options. NJDOC lists a phone rate of $0.04384 per minute and says calls are subject to recording and monitoring except legal, AIDS hotline, and Ombudsperson calls.

Edna Mahan Admissions

Edna Mahan does not book people from street arrests in the way a county jail does. State-prison admission follows sentencing and NJDOC classification. A Hunterdon County arrest may start with local processing at the Hunterdon County Correctional Facility and contracted housing at Warren County Correctional Center. If the person is later convicted and sentenced to state prison, NJDOC intake and classification decide placement and custody level. That state process is why the NJDOC locator, not the county roster, is the correct Edna Mahan lookup tool.

NJDOC profiles can include identifiers, name, selected custody data, current facility or location, and release or parole-related data when present. Released or paroled records are not maintained as live profiles in the same way after custody ends, and most records are removed one year after completion of the custodial term, maximum sentence date, or mandatory parole supervision date, except for CSL or PSL cases. New Jersey VINE can also be used for custody status and victim notification across jail and state-prison systems.

Edna Mahan Reform

Edna Mahan is in a documented period of closure, relocation, and reform. NJDOC relocation material states that Governor Murphy announced in June 2021 that the state would close the women's prison and build a modern, more centrally located facility. The 2023 relocation update described transfers to the satellite unit and a reduced footprint on the original grounds. NJDOC's later press release on the new women's facility tied the project to trauma- and gender-informed training, cultural reform, oversight, accountability, safety, rehabilitation, reentry, and dignity.

Those reform details affect how the facility should be described. Edna Mahan remains listed in NJDOC visitation material at the Clinton address, but the population, units, and long-term facility plan have been changing. It should not be described as Hunterdon County's jail or as the place to search for every Hunterdon arrest. The correct local distinction is county processing and Warren contracted jail housing for pretrial Hunterdon detainees, then NJDOC custody for sentenced state-prison cases. For that broader map, use the Hunterdon County inmate population overview.