Northpoint Training Center

A medium-security state prison for men in Burgin, Kentucky, with a vocational and educational focus, on a former state mental-hospital campus.

Overview

Northpoint Training Center is a state prison for men operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. It is in Burgin, in Mercer County, in central Kentucky, and houses men in medium custody, with a bed capacity of about 1,256. The facility holds general-population inmates in dormitories, inmates assigned to a special management unit in single cells, and minimum-security inmates in separate housing outside the secure perimeter.

Kentucky DOC assigns custody level based on factors that include sentence length, time remaining, and conduct, and a person’s custody level can change during incarceration. The custody class and housing unit held at a given prison affect whether visits are contact or non-contact, so families confirm the arrangement that applies to the specific person before a first visit.

What Makes the Northpoint Training Center Different

Northpoint Training Center is a medium-security men’s prison with a vocational and educational focus, offering work, trade, and academic programming to its population. It sits on a campus that was originally built as a state mental hospital before later becoming a prison. Portions of the facility were rebuilt after a 2009 disturbance.

Visiting

The statewide KY DOC rules above — the approved visitor list, the dress code, ID, and item limits — apply at the Northpoint Training Center. The facility’s own arrangements:

Getting There and Parking

Northpoint Training Center is in Burgin, in Mercer County, in central Kentucky. Burgin is in the Danville–Harrodsburg area south of Lexington, reached by way of US Highway 127, US Highway 68, and connecting state highways. The nearest large commercial airport is in the Lexington area to the north.

Parking is on site. Visitors confirm current entry procedures, the visitor-processing location, and what may be brought onto the grounds with the facility before arriving, because electronic devices and personal items are not permitted inside — visitors may generally bring only identification, a car key, and coins for vending machines.

Nearby Services

The Danville and Harrodsburg areas near Burgin have lodging, dining, and fuel, with a wider range of options in the Lexington area to the north. Emergency medical care is available locally, with larger hospitals in the Lexington area. Visitors traveling a long distance generally find the most options for fuel, food, and overnight stays in the Danville–Harrodsburg corridor and in the Lexington area.

Mail

Incoming personal mail goes directly to the institution, addressed to the person by their committed name and Kentucky DOC inmate number, followed by the facility’s mailing address. Mail is opened and inspected for contraband before delivery; under Kentucky Corrections policy, correspondence is delivered to the person within 48 hours of receipt on normal workdays.

Legal and other privileged mail — from a licensed attorney, a court, a government official, the Department of Public Advocacy, or Corrections officials — is opened only in the person’s presence and should be clearly marked as legal mail.

Books and magazines must be shipped new, directly from a publisher or an approved retailer; items sent by individuals are refused. Packages are limited to approved-vendor care packages arranged through the facility.

Verify the exact mailing address, current mail rules, and approved package vendor with the facility before sending anything, because procedures change.

Learn More

• Visiting a Kentucky prison — approved visitor lists, scheduling, dress code, and what to expect at the gate.
• Sending mail in Kentucky — how to address mail, what is allowed, and how books and packages are handled.
• Phone calls and video visits — setting up calls, video visits, and messaging with someone in a Kentucky prison.
• Sending money — how to deposit funds to a person’s account and what the money can be used for.
• Medical care — how health care works in Kentucky prisons and how to raise a medical concern.
• Intake, classification, and transfers — where people enter the system, how they are classified, and why some state inmates are held in county jails.