Press Releases
Bertie Correctional Institution offender Henry L. Bost (#0686470) has died after an apparent suicide.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Bret Bullis as the new warden of the Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine.
Prisons names Doris Daye as Warden of the Year and Michael Wyche as Correctional Officer of the Year.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Mark Fleming as the new warden of Pamlico Correctional Institution in Bayboro.
The Department of Public Safety is hosting a hiring event on Tuesday, April 26 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Western Piedmont Community College (Carr Hall) in Morganton.
Updated: Two offenders who escaped from a prison facility in Lumberton yesterday were caught on foot around three hours later by Department of Public Safety searchers. They were sent to a higher custody level facility and will be charged with felony escape. How they escaped is under investigation.
Piedmont Correctional Institution offender Jacob Green (#1678555) has died after an apparent suicide.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named April Shoup as the new warden of the Western Correctional Center for Women in Black Mountain.
Offender Semajs Short (#1539014), 24, died after he was attacked in a housing area at the prison by a number of other offenders at 2:14 p.m. today.
Governor Roy Cooper today shared a list of state government support resources for military service members and their families as military personnel based in North Carolina are deployed due to Russia’s unjustified attack on Ukraine.