Press Releases

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is actively seeking an offender serving a portion of his active sentence outside of prison who has absconded from his residential location in the city of Rocky Mount in Nash County.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Chris Crawford as the new warden of the Caldwell Correctional Center in Lenoir.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Christopher Nichols as the new warden of the Gaston Correctional Center in Dallas, North Carolina.

Offender Angelo

RALEIGH—To make prisons safer and more secure, the North Carolina prison system is changing the way offenders receive mail.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Stephen Jacobs as the new warden of Scotland Correctional Institution in Laurinburg.

Offender Tyler Lanier (#1525824) died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, at Scotland Correctional Institution after an apparent suicide.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Mary Locklear as the new warden of the Lumberton Correctional Institution in Lumberton.

Last night, ALE special agents partnered with local law enforcement in a statewide operation that yielded a large number of arrests, charges and the seizure of drugs, guns and cash.

The N.C. Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE) Program has distributed more than $342 million in rent and utility payment to 96,944 North Carolina households since opening last fall.