Press Releases

Offender William J. Warren (#0941504) died in an apparent suicide on Feb. 18, 2020 at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City.

ReBuild NC is seeking public input on the state’s draft action plan for administering Hurricane Florence recovery funding provided to North Carolina through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Eddie Berry as the new director of the Burke Confinement in Response to Violation Center (CRV) in Morganton.He had been the assistant director at the facility since 2014.

The Division of Prisons has successfully completed the return of around 750 offenders to Neuse Correctional Institution who were evacuated last week due to area flooding from the Neuse River in Goldsboro.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Harold Reep as the new warden of the Catawba Correctional Center in Newton.Reep, 52, had been the warden at the Rutherford Correctional Center in Spindale since 2018.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Ralph Prince as the new warden of the Wilkes Correctional Center in North Wilkesboro.Prince, 48, had been the associate warden at the prison since 2018.

The State of North Carolina and FEMA have approved more than $7.8 million to reimburse a City of Fayetteville cemetery following Hurricane Florence-related damage. 

Governor Roy Cooper today visited a Kinston home damaged by Hurricane Matthew that is undergoing reconstruction with federal Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper formalized the state’s ongoing effort to monitor, prepare for and respond to the 2019 novel coronavirus (CoVID-19) with a state Novel Coronavirus Task Force.

Additional rains that are forecast to fall across the state today could cause flash flooding to redevelop across the southern mountains in areas that are already saturated from days of rain.

A minimum custody offender who went missing from his job assignment on Feb. 3 was captured this morning in Pennsylvania.

The state of North Carolina and FEMA have approved an additional $1.6 million to reimburse the City of Wilmington for debris removal costs following Hurricane Florence.

As the state begins to clean up from yesterday’s strong storms, heavy winds today are toppling trees and caused power outage numbers to climb quickly across the state this morning.

As a line of strong storms moves across the state today, many areas of North Carolina are experiencing dangerous weather conditions, including heavy rains, flooding and tornadoes.  These storms will move east toward the coast this afternoon and evening.