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.
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.