Press Releases

Correctional Officers from Bertie Correctional Institution pulled an American Eagle jet 25 feet in 7.85 seconds, making them the grand champions of the annual fundraising plane pull for Special Olympics at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. 

UPDATE: 5/1/2016   5:06 p.m.

The State Prison Emergency Response Team has captured escapee William Bailey. He was caught in Winston-Salem without incident around 4:00 p.m. with the assistance of local law enforcement. Bailey now faces escape charges.

Inmate Lori Pote #1459850 was reportedly found ill in her bed at approximately 2:30 this morning at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Pote was transported to a local hospital where she was later declared dead, the result of an apparent suicide.

The State Highway Patrol is investigating a two vehicle collision on I-95 north in Johnston County near the I-40 interchange that resulted in one fatality

UPDATE:   4/27/2016    1 pm  

At approximately 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, 2016, the Highway Patrol responded to a single vehicle fatality on US 64 eastbound near Shepard School Road.

UPDATE:  Escaped Inmate Keith Bradley was captured in Raleigh at about 2:30 a.m.

Inmate Scott Sica #1412673 was found unresponsive in his cell this morning at Scotland Correctional Institution.  Prison medical staff and paramedics were unable to revive him and he was later declared dead, the result of an apparent suicide.