Beverly Eaves Perdue
Governor

Alvin W. Keller Jr.
Secretary

North Carolina Department of Correction

Avery/Mitchell prison has new superintendent

SPRUCE PINE – Mike Ball is the new superintendent at Avery/Mitchell Correctional Institution, a prison that houses 850 medium custody male inmates and employs 325 officers and other staff members.

Ball, formerly assistant superintendent of custody and operations at Craggy Correctional Institution in Asheville, has 24 years of experience in the Department of Correction. He began his career as a correctional officer at Craggy in 1987.

He succeeds the retired Robert Cooper.

Ball has completed the DOC’s Correctional Leadership Development Program and is a leader of the Division of Prisons’ Western Region Drug Interdiction Team.

He and his wife, Zandra, have a son, Cody, age 17, and a daughter, Casey, 15.

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North Carolina Department of Correction
Public Information Office     4202 Mail Service Center     Raleigh NC 27699-4202
Phone (919) 716-3700      Fax: (919) 716-3795     www.doc.state.nc.us