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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.
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.