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Secretary of Adult Correction Todd Ishee has named Travis Byrd as the new warden of Craggy Correctional Center.
April 28, 2023, 10am - 12pm
Quarterly meeting of the Inmate Grievance Resolution Board
Secretary of Adult Correction Todd Ishee has named Lucketchia Boston as warden of the minimum-security prison for adult males located on 200 acres near Columbia.
TROY —Southern Correctional Institution offender Keith B. Parks (#0750585) has died in an apparent suicide.
Congratulations to 37 Department of Adult Correction officers and staff. They were awarded Advanced Criminal Justice Certificates by the N.C. Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission, during the board’s quarterly meeting.
Secretary of Adult Correction Todd Ishee has named Gregory Groff as the new warden of Richmond Correctional Institution in Hoffman.
Secretary of Adult Correction Todd Ishee has named Lamont Howell as the new warden of Johnston Correctional Institution in Smithfield.
SALISBURY — Adult Correction staff are used to reacting quickly and calmly in an emergency. Four employees of Piedmont Correctional Institution did just that while driving back from a meeting, possibly saving the life of a truck driver on Interstate 85.

The group left Piedmont early Tuesday for Winston-Salem, where regional facility staff provided feedback on the department’s Strategic Plan. After lunch, they started back for Salisbury.

“We were still talking about the plan,” recalled Jennifer Jones, Piedmont’s correctional programs supervisor.  
RALEIGH — Death Row offender Eric Glenn Lane #0667195 died of natural causes early this morning in Central Prison Medical Center.

Lane, 51, was convicted and sentenced to death in Wayne County for the 2002 kidnap, rape and murder of Precious Ebony Whitfield.
N.C. Correctional Institution for Women's offenders give their time to make Christmas cheer.