RALEIGH -- Case manager/educational-vocational coordinator Mahogani Thompkins has won this year’s Education Award for her outstanding work to make Sampson Correctional offenders eligible to attend classes during the pandemic.
“She is a thinker, an outside-the-box person,” said Sarah Cobb, Prisons director of rehabilitative services.
The classes with Sampson Community College are socially distanced, with other pandemic health protocols, but taking classes is an important effort to prepare soon-to-be-released offenders for their returns to their communities.
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RALEIGH -- A nursing supervisor at Southern Correctional Institution in Troy, Rebecca Greene has won Prisons Health Services Award for her efforts to transfer offenders with high medical needs out of two facilities as a pandemic contingency plan.
It was hard work, and detail-oriented, but with her compassion and genuine care for staff and offenders, she made the transition process seem seamless and effortless as hundreds of offenders were transferred under stringent pandemic-safety protocols.
RALEIGH — Sgt. Paul Horton of Eastern Correctional Institution in Maury won the state prison system’s 2021 Custody Award.
Horton and 10 additional Prisons honorees in various categories were recognized May 6 in a ceremony that coincided with national Correctional Officers and Correctional Employees Week.
“He represents the best of our best from across the state,” said Commissioner of Prisons Todd Ishee. “Our award winners are hard-working, innovative and deeply committed to their jobs, their colleagues and to the care of the men and women in our custody.”
For his extraordinary and proactive efforts to battle the pandemic, the warden at Nash Correctional Institution, Drew Stanley, has been named the warden of the year in North Carolina.
“Drew Stanley has done amazing work over the past year and has truly earned this award,” said Todd Ishee, Commissioner of Prisons. “He has been visionary, precautionary and effective in keeping the health and safety of his staff and the men in his custody as his top priority.”
ALE special agents recently concluded an investigation resulting in multiple arrests and seizures.
In April of 2021, ALE received information of an illegal bar operating out of Roaring River. Special agents found the Brews Brothers Bar and Grill, located at 2055 Greenhorn Road, openly sold alcoholic beverages without first obtaining the applicable ABC permits. Special agents began an investigation into Brews Brothers Bar and Grill, and observed employees sold malt beverages to patrons on numerous occasions.
After countless years and a long history of disturbances, drug violations and countless calls to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, this neighborhood has worked together with the Sheriff’s Office to ensure their children and families are safer.
On May 4, 2021, Superior Court Judge James Gregory Bell signed a consent judgment for a Chapter 19 Nuisance Abatement action against Jean Clark, the property owner of 171 Strawberry Lane, Lumber Bridge.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Stephen Jacobs as the new warden of Tabor Correctional Institution in Tabor City.
Jacobs, 53, had been the warden at Lumberton Correctional Institution in Lumberton since 2020.
Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed May 2-8 as Correctional Officers and Correctional Employees Week in North Carolina, in recognition of the essential public service provided by employees in the state’s prison system.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Stephen Jacobs as the new warden of Tabor Correctional Institution in Tabor City.
Jacobs, 53, had been the warden at Lumberton Correctional Institution in Lumberton since 2020.
The State of North Carolina and FEMA have approved $1,341,829 to reimburse the North Carolina Department of Transportation for road system repairs from Hurricane Florence damage in 2018.
Funding from FEMA’s Public Assistance program covers the repair of roads, embankments, culverts, shoulders and guardrails that were washed out in Anson County by the storm’s fast-moving floodwaters. FEMA’s share for the project is $1,006,372 and the state’s share is $335,457.