When administrators, managers and staff members of NCDPS Community Corrections met in Raleigh for their annual managers’ meeting, they came prepared to work, strategize, and to
North Carolina is changing the way it trains new correctional officers so they are better prepared for the roles they play inside the state’s prisons.
Leaders of the state’s 55 prisons repeatedly heard two consistent messages from senior management and presenters during their meetings in Raleigh on March 12-13: You are the messenger in your facilities, and it is essential to communicate and listen to your staff.
On Feb. 7-9, Interim Chief Deputy Secretary Reuben Young and Director of Prisons Kenneth Lassiter resumed their visits to the state’s prisons by heading west.
Governor Roy Cooper is making good on his promise to make North Carolina safer by helping people leaving the state’s prisons become productive members of their communities.
This June, 16 students from Bertie County Schools graduated from high school, and embarked on the next leg of a journey that began 18 months ago when they applied to be a part of the inaugural Public Safety Cadet program – an innovative program that aims to help more young residents of Bert
“The meals on the bus go ‘round and ‘round, ‘round and ‘round, ‘round and ‘round…”
It’s not a typo – yes, I said meals.