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The solar farm will be the first utility-owned array in North Carolina to serve a public correctional institution.
WHAT: The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) will celebrate a significant milestone toward achieving state sustainability goals with a groundbreaking ceremony for a 500 kW solar energy project on Oct. 30. The new 500 kW solar array at Tabor Correctional Institution is one of several major energy improvement efforts underway at NCDAC correctional facilities aimed at achieving goals set forth by Governor Cooper’s Executive Order 80. 
Randolph is the 39th NCDAC facility either recommended or awarded ACA accreditation.
Sammy Heaton previously served as associate warden for custody and operations at Southern Correctional.
Caswell Correctional Center is the 38th NCDAC facility recommended or awarded ACA accreditation.
NCDAC employees Chavis Everett, Darrell Monroe & Scott Surles were recognized this week as recipients of the 2024 Governor’s Award for Excellence.
State correctional and local law enforcement officers are seeking offender Christopher Greer (#0620836), who escaped Friday morning from Caldwell Correctional Institution in Lenoir.
Gabriel Boyd Sellers died Oct. 8 of an apparent suicide at Central Prison.
Today the NC Department of Adult Correction transferred 151 men from Craggy Correctional Center in Asheville to three other prisons, completing the movement of people from prisons in storm-impacted areas of Western North Carolina. NCDAC officials anticipate no additional transfers from storm-affected locations.
The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction today evacuated more than 800 men incarcerated at Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine.