Locate South Woods State Prison Inmates

South Woods State Prison Custody

South Woods State Prison is operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections at 215 South Burlington Road, Bridgeton, NJ 08302. The phone listed in the research material is 856-459-7000. It is not a Cumberland County Jail annex, not a municipal lockup, and not a place to search for a person held on a new local arrest unless that person has since moved into state custody. The facility holds sentenced male state prisoners under NJDOC jurisdiction.

NJDOC materials and Board of Trustees minutes describe South Woods as a prison complex with a broad range of custody classifications from maximum to minimum. The local detail is important because readers often see Bridgeton and assume the county roster covers all custody in the city. The county roster is for local county jail custody. South Woods is searched through the statewide NJDOC offender search engine, and its visits, mail, and money channels are state-prison channels.

South Woods Prison Population

South Woods has facility-specific population data in the research file. NJDOC PREA auditor procurement material lists FY2024 operational capacity as 3,532 and FY2024 average population as 3,193. NJDOC Board of Trustees minutes from 2025 noted 3,247 incarcerated persons assigned to South Woods and about 1,000 civilian and custody staff. Those same minutes described about 2,704 people in general population and about 200 in some form of EPU. The NJDOC 2023 annual report snippet listed a lower Dec. 31, 2023 figure, but the research flags that figure as inconsistent with later facility-specific materials.

South Woods Inmate Lookup

Use the NJDOC offender search engine for a South Woods State Prison inmate. NJDOC says the offender search promotes public safety and provides selected offender information consistent with OPRA's public-access policy. The locator is for sentenced state custody. It is not a county booking roster, and it should not be used to check a person who was arrested only recently unless that person has been sentenced and transferred into NJDOC custody.

1. Open the NJDOC offender search and read the search notice before submitting a query.
2. Use an SBI number when available, or search by legal last name and first name.
3. Review the result for facility or location, and confirm South Woods State Prison rather than another NJDOC facility.
4. Use listed offender, sentence, release, and custody fields as selected state information, then call the prison for visit or mail logistics.

The NJDOC offender information screenshot shows the state hub for offender search, visiting, and staying connected resources.

The state hub is the right search context for South Woods because the prison is part of NJDOC, not Cumberland County local jail custody.

South Woods vs County Jail

The difference between the county roster and the state locator is the most common source of search errors in Cumberland County. A person booked after a new arrest is usually searched through the Cumberland County Jail roster. A person sentenced to a state-prison term is searched through NJDOC after transfer. Once the person enters NJDOC custody, the county jail roster may no longer show current custody even though the criminal case started in Cumberland County.

For local arrest custody before a state transfer, use Cumberland County jail inmate records and then move to NJDOC only if the person has been sentenced or transferred.

South Woods Prison Visits

South Woods visitation follows NJDOC prison rules. State-prison visiting is not the same as county video visitation through CCDOCVisit. NJDOC visits generally require approval and facility-specific scheduling, and the visitor must follow state ID, dress, conduct, and security screening rules. The research file does not provide a South Woods day-by-day public schedule, so the accurate instruction is to use NJDOC visitation resources and confirm the current process with the facility before travel.

The NJDOC visitation screenshot is the state source for prison visit scheduling details and facility visit contacts.

Use this state visitation source instead of Cumberland County Jail visit schedules, which apply to local jail custody only.

South Woods Mail and Money

NJDOC mail for South Woods uses a centralized Pigeonly address rather than the county jail post office box. The research file gives the format as: Incarcerated Person's Name - SBI Number, South Woods State Prison - facility code 1402, PO Box 96777, Las Vegas, NV 89193. The facility code matters because NJDOC routes mail through a state system. Do not use the Cumberland County Jail county-number format for a South Woods prisoner.

The NJDOC staying-connected screenshot documents the statewide mail and facility-code information used for state prison communication.

The state mail format is the controlling rule for South Woods correspondence.

South Woods Prison Admission

South Woods intake is prison admission after sentencing or NJDOC transfer, not street-arrest booking. A Cumberland County defendant may first appear on the county jail roster while awaiting court action. After a state sentence, custody moves through NJDOC reception, classification, and placement. Classification is the prison assessment used to decide security level, housing, and programming. South Woods materials describe multiple custody classifications and unit types, so a person's assigned unit may affect visit scheduling, movement, property, and program access.

Charges on a county jail profile should not be read as the full South Woods prison record. State-prison records center on sentenced custody, offense and sentence information, and release or parole details selected by NJDOC. Court case data remains separate through New Jersey court systems. VINE can help with notification, but it does not replace NJDOC for facility confirmation.

South Woods Conditions and Programs

NJDOC pages referenced in the research discuss programming and supportive services, therapeutic reintegration, intake assessment, family resources, DCF visits, and Fair Release and Reentry Act materials. South Woods facility materials add local housing detail, including general population, a minimum unit, extended-care unit, close-custody units, and EPU references. Those details make the prison different from a simple local jail page, because prison status depends on classification and sentence rather than a short booking episode.