Storm update
Prison visiting, community volunteer passes, home leaves and work release employment activities that were paused for the winter storm are scheduled to resume Tuesday, Jan. 27.
Topics Related to Prisons
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.
Approximately 400 offenders from Western Correctional Center for Women in Swannanoa and the Black Mountain Substance Abuse Treatment Center for Women in Black Mountain were temporarily relocated to other state correctional facilities for women.
Jason William Martin (#0760219) died today of an apparent suicide at Mountain View Correctional Institution.
Neuse and Johnston are the 35th and 36th DAC locations or operations to be recommended or awarded ACA accreditation.
The total of fully accredited NCDAC operations is now 32 — including 27 of 54 prison facilities.
A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the capture of escaped murderer Ramone Alston, 30. Local, state and federal law enforcement and public safety agencies are continuing the search for convicted murderer Ramone Alston who escaped from the custody of state corrections officers Tuesday morning while arriving for a medical appointment in HillsboroughGovernor Roy Cooper authorized a $30,000 reward from the state, the United States Marshals Service is providing $10,000 and the FBI is providing $10,000.
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State correctional and local law enforcement officers are seeking offender Ramone Alston (#1326788), who escaped Tuesday morning while being transported to a medical appointment in Hillsborough. Alston, 30, is a Black male with family and friends in the area. He is serving a life sentence for a 2018 first degree murder conviction in Orange County. He was housed at Bertie Correctional Institution in Windsor.