Press Releases
After a little more than a year since the start of a pilot program that allowed women to register for NCWorks at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, the NC Jobs Exploration in Transition (NCJET) system is now available in 22 facilities and nearly 700 incarcerated men and women are able to access the system.
NCDAC selected Trevor Wingard as the agency’s new Chief Deputy Secretary of Institutions and Correction Enterprises.
State correctional, probation and local law enforcement officers are searching for offender Mary Helms (#0569545) , who escaped today from the North Piedmont Confinement in Response to Violation (CRV) Center for Women in Lexington.
Officials with the Division of Community Supervision have promoted Heather Bevell to Assistant Judicial Division Director in Judicial Division 1, effective June 29, 2026.In her new position, Bevell will oversee operations in Division 1, which covers 32 counties in the eastern portion of the state.
Jerry Laws was named warden of Piedmont Correctional in Salisbury, NC.
Patricia Blackburn was named warden of Foothills Correctional in Morgantown, NC.
American Correctional Association auditors have recommended accreditation be awarded to Harnett Correctional Institution.
With the completion of air conditioning installation projects at Warren Correctional Institution and Wilkes Correctional Center this month, the NC Department of Adult Correction has reached the point where 90% of the nearly 39,000 beds in the state prison system are in air-conditioned spaces.
WHAT: Quarterly meeting of the State Reentry Council Collaborative (SRCC). The SRCC was established by the North Carolina General Assembly and former Gov. Roy Cooper in 2017 and is managed by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. The SRCC is made up of representatives from across state and local government whose agency responsibilities intersect with the incarceration or reentry process for people in North Carolina.
North Carolina ranks 49th in starting salaries for correctional officers. Low pay has contributed to severe staffing shortages and high vacancy rates across the state. To address staffing shortages in state prisons, the Department of Adult Correction and the Office of State Human Resources have launched a pilot program in three state prisons to reduce staffing vacancies.