Burlington County Corrections and Work Release Center

The property along Pemberton-Browns Mills road that housed the Burlington County Corrections and Work Release Center has been owned by the county for over a century. It was once home to an almshouse, and later the Burlington County Hospital for the Insane. It would only be fitting that a prison would open up on the property as well.

The Burlington Center opened in the 1970s on 12 acres directly adjacent to the Burlington County Hospital for the Insane.

The new prison building consisted of two main cellblock areas, a gymnasium, and an infirmary wing.

At some point the old psych hospital was demolished and new DOT buildings went up on the site.

In 2015 it was announced that the center would be closed rather than repaired. Prisoners would be booked and held at Mt Holly until they can be moved to Atlantic county facility. This restructuring was poised to save the county roughly 2 million dollars a year. This estimate didn't include the millions of dollars in upgrades the facility needed.

Three years after being shuttered we decided to stop by and see what was going on with the building. It was in fairly good shape, despite all the water that had worked it's way inside. Despite that demolition started a few month after our visit, and the building was leveled by the fall of 2018.