Press Releases

The Department of Public Safety is pleased to announce the activation of VIPER site #199 on Chunky Gal Gap in Clay County.

The juvenile identified as first name, “James” last initial “N.” who escaped yesterday during a home visit in Hickory has been apprehended and returned to secure custody at the Division of Juvenile Justice's Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center in Concord.

 

When young people are called to the office of Alison Uhlenberg, her goal is that she never sees them there again. Uhlenberg is a juvenile court counselor who makes lifechanging decisions about how the state will respond to young people who have broken the law.

Stanley Melvin, director of the Pitt Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Greenville, found a valuable mentor in his Goldsboro High school basketball coach in the early 1970s. The late Coach Norvell Lee helped Melvin learn that he has a heart for kids.

Four airmen died and two others were seriously injured when a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) equipped C-130 belonging to the 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard, based here, crashed Sunday evening while fighting a woodland

Dawn Thomas remembers why she is a psychologist, now working at the Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center in Concord.