Topics Related to Adult Correction

The walls are white, the counters are antiseptic and the recliners are set comfortably next to treatment stations.

It looks like a typical medical outpatient clinic.

Gary Mohr had high expectations prior to leading the two-day Prisons Leadership Development Workshop on Feb. 18-19. He knew he had an audience hungry to receive skills they could take back to their facilities, and he had the morsels to provide the nutritional needs.

As part of prison reform efforts at DPS, the Office of Staff Development and Training has conducted situational awareness training for prisons’ personnel, including anyone who works in a prison environment such as Correction Enterprises’ employees.

Whenever there are individuals or groups that need assistance, few rise to the occasion better than correctional officers.

Twenty-four NC Department of Public Safety employees graduated from the 19th Correctional Leadership Development Program (CLDP) class on September 6, completing a yearlong journey designed to cultivate future leaders. 

Pictured Above: Millie Gordon hugs Western Region Director, Steve Bailey, as he presents her with the 2008 Old North State Award for the many decades of volunteer service to the NC Division of Prisons.

Tougher consequences now await offenders in North Carolina’s prison system who assault staff members, as the Division of Prisons takes another step to provide the safest working and living environment for staff and offenders. 

Normally, a correctional officer focuses on performing duties that protect prison employees, the public, and even inmates when the situation arises. But there are situations that call on the officers to take the additional steps to save an inmate’s life.