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East Jersey State Prison

East Jersey State Prison is a maximum security prison operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections in , , . It was established in 1896 as Rahway State Prison, and was the first reformatory in New Jersey, officially opening in 1901.
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  • Type: Prison
  • Description: State Prison in New Jersey
  • Also known as: “New Jersey State Reformatory”
  • Address: 1100 Woodbridge Road, Rahway, NJ 07065

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center and Avenel station.

Prison
The is a secure correctional facility operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Its purpose is to provide treatment and incarceration for certain criteria meeting repetitive and compulsive male sex offenders who have been sentenced under the New Jersey Sex Offender Act. is situated 1,100 feet west of East Jersey State Prison.

Railway station
Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Avenel is an active commuter railroad station in the of , . Servicing trains of NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, the station serves trains going to and to New York Penn Station. is situated 1 mile southwest of East Jersey State Prison.

Railway station
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is an NJ Transit train station in . It is served by the Northeast Corridor Line and North Jersey Coast Line. Rahway is just northeast of the Perth Amboy Junction, where the Northeast Corridor and the North Jersey Coast lines split at Union Tower. is situated 1¼ miles north of East Jersey State Prison.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Avenel and Hazelton.

Suburb
is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within , in , in the U.S. state of .

Hamlet
is a township in . According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total land area of including 23.213 square miles.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community located within in , in the U.S. state of . Joseph Medwick Park is a greenway of parkland along the banks the .

East Jersey State Prison

Latitude
40.59028° or 40° 35′ 25″ north
Longitude
-74.2694° or 74° 16′ 10″ west
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Open location code
87G7HPRJ+46
Open­Street­Map ID
way 306577682
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­prison
Geo­Names ID
5097428
Wiki­data ID
Q3403968
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “East Jersey State Prison”. Photo: Jackie Finn-Irwin, CC BY 2.0.