Press Releases

N.C. Department of Public Safety, including its divisions of Emergency Management and the N.C. National Guard, are actively planning and coordinating with N.C. Department of Health and Human Services to create options for how Guard personnel may augment existing vaccination resources.

An Alexander Correctional Institution offender with pre-existing medical conditions, who tested positive for COVID-19, has died at a hospital.

An Alexander Correctional Institution offender with pre-existing medical conditions, who tested positive for COVID-19, has died at a hospital.

An offender at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women with pre-existing medical conditions, who tested positive for COVID-19, has died at a hospital.

A Central Prison offender with pre-existing medical conditions, who tested positive for COVID-19, has died at a hospital.

RALEIGH – An offender at Nash Correctional Institution, diagnosed as COVID-19-positive, died Christmas night.

Offender Corey Hudson (1309142) died Christmas night at Marion Correctional Institution after an apparent suicide. He was found unresponsive in a housing area at 8:37 p.m. CPR was initiated by prison medical staff.

An Alexander Correctional Institution offender with pre-existing medical conditions, who tested positive for COVID-19, has died.

An Anson Correctional Institution offender with pre-existing medical conditions, who tested positive for COVID-19, has died.

Offender Darrell Black (#0512155) died Monday at Piedmont Correctional Institution after an apparent suicide. He was found unresponsive in a housing area at 4:52 p.m. Prison medical staff and local paramedics responded and worked to resuscitate the offender. He was pronounced dead at 5:21 p.m.

A team of American Correctional Association auditors has recommended accreditation be awarded to the Moore Recycling Plant, a Correction Enterprise operation that recycles license plates and road signs.

The State Highway Patrol proudly welcomed 50 new troopers at a graduation ceremony held for the 152nd Fast-Track Basic Highway Patrol School.

The State of North Carolina and FEMA have approved $1.72 million to reimburse the North Carolina Department of Transportation for Hurricane Florence-related road and culvert repairs in Johnston and Wilson counties.

Today Governor Roy Cooper signed a state disaster declaration for Alexander County and the surrounding counties of Caldwell, Catawba, Iredell, and Wilkes, after heavy rains associ