Neuse Correctional Institution is a minimum-security state prison for men in the United States, operated by the State of North Carolina Department of Correction in Goldsboro in Wayne County. Housing 816 prisoners, Neuse Correctional Institution, received its first inmates on August 27, 1994. Neuse was built to replace Triangle Correctional Center in Raleigh as the eastern North Carolina processing center for adult male misdemeanants.