Hurricane Floyd has had a devastating impact on the Department of Correction

Current Relief Efforts
Inmate Evacuations

Execution of Harvey Lee Green, Jr. scheduled for Sept. 24, 1999
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N.C. DOC receives national recognition for services provided to victims of crime 
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Victim Services
Working for You
1-800-368-1985

Sampson Correctional Institution takes recycling seriously

Through recycling, Sampson Correctional Institution is well on its way to reducing the amount of waste it sends to the landfill by as much as 80 percent. 
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Clearly Corrections:
A clarification of inmate work programs
Of the 31,162 inmates who were in prison at the end of July, 22,218 were assigned to various work or education programs depending on their custody level. 
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Munching worms, plastic drum liners and digital printing are just a few ways the N.C. Department of Correction found to save the envionment as well as tax dollars.
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New NC DOC Web application provides prisoner information 
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Prisoner Info

DOC Citizen Services Office opens
Citizens seeking answers to questions about the Department of Correction now have one centralized office and phone number to call. They can dial 1-800-368-1985 to reach the department’s new Office of Citizen Services. 
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1-800-368-1985
Office of Citizen Services
Box 29540
Raleigh, NC 27626-0540

• Wake County DOC offices get new mailing addresses
• NC DOC Employee Benefits Bulletin - July 1999
• Spotlight on DCC - Judicial District 1
• Chief of Security helps capture escapees
• Spotlight on DART-Wayne
• Assistant Secretary Lynn Phillips named to Clean NC 2000 Board
• Spotlight on Durham Correctional Center
• N.C. Probation and Parole Association conference a success
• Central Prison employees get needed pay break
• DOC Professionals help set up Office of Juvenile Justice
• On the road again-NC DOC truck drivers
• Secretary Beck names Officers of the Year 

• US violent crime rates declined 7%, and property crime rates fell 12% from 1997 to 1998.-BJS Report 
• This just in - Corrections Connection
• Attitudes Toward Crime, the Police, and the Law: Individual and Neighborhood Differences - NIJ, June 1999 
• National Institute of Justice Journal (Number 239) April 1999
• Police-Corrections Partnerships - NIJ
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 1996 - BJS
• Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1998
• Truth in Sentencing in State Prisons - BJS
• The Rights of Crime Victims--Does Legal Protection Make a Difference? - NIJ
• Criminal Victimization 1997: Changes 1996-97 with Trends 1993-97 - BJS
• Substance Abuse and Treatment of State and Federal Prisoners, 1997 - BJS
• Capital Punishment 1997 - BJS
• The Women's Prison Association: Supporting Women Offenders and Their Families - NIJ

Coming soon to NC! A State
Automated Victim Notification 
System