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The Department of Public Safety and the Greene County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the apparent suicide of an inmate at Maury Correctional Institution.
 
Inmate Robert Diadone #0926346 was found unresponsive in his cell this morning shortly before 9 a.m.

WHAT: The Governor’s Task Force on Safer Schools provides guidance to the N.C. Center for Safer Schools and considers future policy and legislative action that is needed to improve school safety in North Carolina. 

Officials with the Department of Public Safety have requested that law enforcement look into the cause of death of an inmate at Alexander Correctional Institution.Prison officials and law enforcement investigate inmate death at Alexander Correctional

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol responded to a fatal collision this morning involving a Columbus County Deputy just outside the town of Chadbourn, N.C.

 

Eight state police and highway patrol agencies spent Friday, June 10, 2016, through Sunday, June 12, 2016, enforcing Operation Border to Border along approximately 791 miles of U.S. Route 15 in an effort to prevent traffic crashes along the heavily-traveled corridor.

A two-day initiative named “Operation Safe Summer,” focusing on offenders with outstanding warrants , gang and drug violations, and the compliance of high-risk offenders on probation and parole supervision, resulted in the arrest of 69 individuals, the service of more than 144 warrants, and 296 c

Local, state and federal law enforcement and corrections personnel joined forces this week in a two-day joint operation in Alamance County called Operation Summer Slam that resulted in seven arrests and numerous charges.
 
During the operation, 45 officers and inves

At approximately 3 a.m., on Monday, June 20, 2016, the State Highway Patrol responded to a two vehicle collision one-mile north of Rolesville.

 

The North Carolina state prison system is ending the use of solitary confinement for its youngest inmates and introducing a new youthful offender program to focus on the needs of young people serving sentences in the adult prison system.

The Department of Public Safety and Windsor Police Department are investigating the death of an inmate following a fight Friday night at Bertie Correctional Institution.