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Update: Escaped offender captured

State correctional and local law enforcement officers are seeking offender Christopher Greer (#0620836), who escaped Friday morning from Caldwell Correctional Institution in Lenoir.

Offender dies of apparent suicide at Central Prison

Gabriel Boyd Sellers died Oct. 8 of an apparent suicide at Central Prison.

NCDAC foresees no further storm-related transfers

Today the NC Department of Adult Correction transferred 151 men from Craggy Correctional Center in Asheville to three other prisons, completing the movement of people from prisons in storm-impacted areas of Western North Carolina.

Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution evacuated

The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction today evacuated more than 800 men incarcerated at Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine.

Two correctional facilities in Western NC evacuated

Approximately 400 offenders from Western Correctional Center for Women in Swannanoa and the Black Mountain Substance Abuse Treatment Center for Women in Black Mountain were temporarily relocated to other state correctional facilities for women.

Offender dies from apparent suicide at Mountain View Correctional

Neuse, Johnston correctional facilities recommended for ACA accreditation

Neuse and Johnston are the 35th and 36th DAC locations or operations to be recommended or awarded ACA accreditation.

10 more NCDAC locations awarded ACA accreditation

The total of fully accredited NCDAC operations is now 32 — including 27 of 54 prison facilities. 

$50,000 reward for information leading to capture of escaped offender

A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the capture of escaped murderer Ramone Alston, 30.

Search underway for escaped offender

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State correctional and local law enforcement officers are seeking offender Ramone Alston (#1326788), who escaped Tuesday morning while being transported to a medical appointment in Hillsborough