About Us

North Carolina Department of Adult Correction

Mission

The Department of Adult Correction will uphold the law and protect the public by collaboratively focusing on rehabilitation with accountability and professionalism.

Vision

The Department of Adult Correction will work collaboratively with the whole community to create a safer North Carolina.

Core Values - PRIDE

Protect - Respect - Integrity and Innovation - Duty and Diversity - Excellence

By the numbers

Almost 20,000

Employees

One of the largest agencies in North Carolina state government.

More than $1.9 billion

Annual Budget

Annual budget of nearly $2 billion

About 30,000

Offenders in prison

Approximately 30,000 offenders incarcerated in state prisons

More than 84,000

Supervised offenders

More than 84,000 offenders are supervised on probation, parole or post-release supervision.