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The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Joseph Payne as director of the Edgecombe Youth Development Center in Rocky Mount. He replaces the recently retired Jameka Jackson.

A team of American Correctional Association auditors has recommended accreditation be awarded to the Tyrrell Prison Work Farm, a high achievement and another step toward full accreditation of the prison system.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is actively seeking an offender serving a portion of his active sentence outside of prison who has absconded from his residential location in Avery County.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is actively seeking an offender serving a portion of her active sentence outside of prison who has absconded from her residential location in Asheville.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Tom Brickhouse as the new warden of the Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City.Brickhouse, 49, had been the warden at Hyde Correctional in Swan Quarter since 2019.

After a long history of disturbances, drug violations and numerous calls to the Whiteville Police Department, the neighborhood surrounding Central Middle School, should soon see long awaited changes. On Monday, June 21, 2021, Superior Court Judge Douglas B.

The N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency is accepting public comments until June 27 on a proposed amendment to the state’s action plan that adds $34.6 million in HUD Community Development Block Grant–Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) funding to the state’s existing action plan.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is actively seeking an offender serving a portion of his active sentence outside of prison who has absconded from his residential location in Buncombe County.

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol will be joining forces with fellow law enforcement partners in adjoining states to conduct quarterly, concentrated highway traffic enforcement periods this year as part of SafeDRIVE (Distracted Reckless Impaired Visibility Enforcement).

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is actively seeking an offender serving a portion of his active sentence outside of prison who has absconded from his residential location in Nash County.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is actively seeking an offender serving a portion of her active sentence outside of prison who has absconded from her residential location in Cabarrus County.

The State of North Carolina and FEMA have approved $2,370,881 to reimburse the state’s Department of Transportation for the repair of roads in Duplin County damaged by Hurricane Florence in 2018. 

The State of North Carolina and FEMA have approved $2,480,566 to reimburse the state’s Department of Transportation for the repair of roads in Sampson County damaged by Hurricane Florence in 2018. 

The N.C. Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE) Program has announced a change to income requirements that will increase the number of applicants eligible for emergency rent and utility assistance.

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