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The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of North Carolina. NCDAC was formed as a cabinet level agency at the start of 2023, after corrections had been part of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety since 2012.
This is a list of state prisons in the U.S. state of North Carolina: [1] In January 2015, the former five male divisions and one female division were consolidated into four regions, as listed below. [2] As of February 2015, North Carolina houses about 38,000 offenders in 56 correctional institutions. [3]
Alexander Correctional Institution (AXCI) is a North Carolina Department of Public Safety state prison for men, located in Taylorsville, North Carolina. [1] The facility opened in 2004 as one of three 1000-bed Close Custody prisons built in the state. The institution is a Close Custody prison, used mainly for housing felons. [2]
Brown Creek Correctional Institution is a state men's prison in Polkton, North Carolina, United States, first opened in July 1993 and operated by the North Carolina Department of Correction. Its official capacity is 1,204 inmates, one of the eight largest prisons in the state.
Rivers Correctional Institution is a privately owned prison in unincorporated Hertford County, North Carolina, [1] operated by GEO Group under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons since its construction in 2001. [2] The prison, on 257 acres (104 ha) of land, was specially built to house prisoners from the District of Columbia.
Lanesboro Correctional Institution was a state men's prison in Polkton, North Carolina, that first opened in January, 2004 and operated by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Adult Corrections. As one of the state's four largest prisons, the official capacity was 1,800 prisoners. [1] The facility housed medium- and close-security ...
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) is an umbrella agency that carries out many of the state's law enforcement, emergency response and homeland security functions. The department was created in 1977 as the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.
Due to a backlog in counties jails and crowding in other North Carolina state prisons, [2] the state of North Carolina began construction on Tabor Correctional Institution (TCI) in May 2006 and was completed in April 2008. [3] Backlog refers to the housing of inmates in county jails as the prison system has insufficient space to house the inmates.