The names of five North Carolina prison facilities will change effective Oct. 4 in an effort to update them to 21st century cultural standards.
RALEIGH — New medical research from North Carolina’s prison system supports the use of alternative treatment for mentally ill offenders.
Today, Governor Roy Cooper appointed Eddie Buffaloe to lead the Department of Public Safety as Secretary.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Jeffrey McGhee as the new warden of the Lincoln Correctional Center in Lincolnton.
McGhee had been the security coordinator in the Western Region Office.
In response to a resource request submitted to FEMA, North Carolina has received 25 Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances each with a two-person crew of EMS providers.
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 the city of Charlotte in Mecklenburg County.
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 the city of Rocky Mount in Nash County.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Christopher Nichols as the new warden of the Gaston Correctional Center in Dallas, North Carolina.
Nichols, 39, had been a captain at Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Chris Crawford as the new warden of the Caldwell Correctional Center in Lenoir.
Crawford had been the assistant superintendent for custody at Mountain View Correctional in Spruce Pine.