The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Jamie Cobb as the superintendent at Greene Correctional Institution in Maury.
Cobb, 47, has spent more than 25 years with the Department of Public Safety, moving from the Eastern Region Operations Manager position he was named at in 2017.
After starting his career as a correctional officer at Central Prison in 1992, Cobb has spent most of his career in the eastern part of North Carolina. He moved to Eastern Correctional Institution in 2003 as a correctional sergeant and was promoted to lieutenant in 2006. Cobb was promoted to captain at Maury Correctional Institution in 2008 and then promoted to Assistant Superintendent II for Custody in 2004. Cobb was promoted and moved to Harnett Correctional Institution in 2015 as the Assistant Superintendent IV for Custody.
Cobb is a native of Johnston County.
Greene CI houses male inmates in minimum custody.
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