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Columbus, Forsyth, Orange and Carteret correctional facilities earn exemplary audit scores.
N.C. Correctional Institution for Women's offenders give their time to make Christmas cheer.
In black robes and mortarboards over tan prison uniforms, 13 offenders graduated from the Field Ministers program Wednesday at Nash Correctional Institution.
Six Sampson Correctional Institution offenders enrolled at Campbell University were inducted Wednesday into a national honors society for nontraditional college students.
On Friday, September 23, 2022, Pamlico Correctional Institution held its 45th graduation for the New Leash on Life Program. The program had been temporarily suspended in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lincoln Correctional Center has a long history of community involvement. As part of its commitment to helping those in need, the facility donates large quantities of produce to the local food banks, women's shelters and other organizations every year.
“Assisting the community is beneficial to the staff at Lincoln Correctional just as much as it is to the community,” said Daniel L. Brown, Associate Warden of Custody and Operations.
Every day, the more than 2,000 officers of Community Corrections carry out their sometimes unheralded mission as Probation/Parole Officers for the State of North Carolina.
While you might not have noticed them in your community, they provide critical public service at all hours of the day and night.
While you might not have noticed them in your community, they provide critical public service at all hours of the day and night.
In her role as warden at Caswell Correctional Center, Doris Daye sees acts of greatness every day. As a leader, she understands just how important it is to recognize and reward employees who go above and beyond their duties. Every month, Daye reaches into a jar and pulls out a card with an employee’s name on it. That person, along with the others in the drawing, was at some point “caught in the act of greatness” by co-workers and supervisors at the facility.
DPS and Prisons leadership and staff took time today to memorialize correctional employees who have died in the line of duty. The annual observance took place during Correctional Officers and Correctional Employees Week with a ceremony held at the Randall Building in downtown Raleigh.
“This solemn but important occasion honors those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the performance of their duty, to keep us all safe,” said N.C. DPS Secretary Eddie M. Buffaloe Jr. “When duty called, they answered time and time again until the ultimate call came.”