Raleigh Central Prison For Women
Thousands in NC prisons endure summer heat without AC
Prison officials plan to install air conditioning for all prison beds by 2026 as rising temperatures pose growing health risks for incarcerated people.
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/07/09/thousands-in-nc-prisons-endure-summer-heat-without-air-conditioning/Air conditioning work progresses, major NCCIW project ...
If all goes according to plan, the summer of 2026 should be the last summer in the state prison system without all air-conditioned living spaces ...
https://www.dac.nc.gov/blog/2025/06/04/air-conditioning-work-progresses-major-ncciw-project-completedNorth Carolina Correctional Institution for Women - Wikipedia
North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women (NCCIW) is the primary North Carolina Department of Public Safety prison facility housing female inmates on a 30-acre (12 ha) campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves as a support facility for the six other women's prisons throughout the state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Correctional_Institution_for_Women
Thousands in NC prisons endure summer heat without air conditioning WUNC News
April Barber Scales recalls her 18 summers spent incarcerated without air conditioning at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh — the state’s largest women’s prison — as physically and mentally demanding as she said relief from the grueling heat was hard to come by.
https://www.wunc.org/term/news/2025-07-09/nc-prisons-without-air-conditioning
Call for... - North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Facebook
We invite practitioners, partners, and community stakeholders to submit session proposals that highlight innovative programs and best practices that strengthen #rehabilitation, #reentry, and build safe communities across NC. Submission deadline: January 23.
https://www.facebook.com/NCAdultCorrection/posts/call-for-proposals-is-now-open-be-a-part-of-the-2026-nc-rehabilitation-and-reent/845226911759100/
Center for Women - Center for Community Transitions
Center for Women The Center for Women is a thirty-bed residential work release program accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA) that supports women in the final stages of incarceration. Opening in 1987 as a contract work release program, the Center was created to help women successfully transition from prison to their family and community while upholding the standards of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC).
https://centerforcommunitytransitions.org/programs/center-for-women/We’re heading to Cleveland for NCHEP 2026! 📣✨ This year’s theme—“Beyond Access”—speaks to the core of who we are. Our community fought hard to open the door to higher education in prison. Now the work is about what comes next: deeper learning, stronger support, and real opportunities for justice-impacted scholars.
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Human Rights Organizations Demand Prison Population Reduction to Ease Overcrowding After Hurricane Helene - DRNC
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 31, 2024 MEDIA CONTACTS: - Emancipate NC, Dawn Blagrove, 919-607-3217; Elizabeth Simpson, 703-587-8563 - Keisha Williams, ACLU-NC Director of Communications, [email protected] - Luke Woollard, Disability Rights NC Staff Attorney, [email protected] - Timothy Young, NC Justice Center, [email protected] - Melissa Boughton, Southern Coalition for Social Justice Communications Director...
https://disabilityrightsnc.org/newsfeed/human-rights-organizations-demand-prison-population-reduction-to-ease-overcrowding-after-hurricane-helene/
Freeing Joan Little: Gender, Incarceration, and Struggles for Justice Office for Institutional Equity
Freeing Joan Little: Gender, Incarceration, and Struggles for Justice Speaker Christina Greene; Shelagh Kenney; Adriane Lentz-Smith In 1974, a twenty-year-old Black woman named Joan Little found herself facing the death penalty for killing a white guard who had tried to rape her in an eastern North Carolina prison.
https://oie.duke.edu/event/freeing-joan-little-gender-incarceration-and-struggles-justice-01-29-2026/
North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Raleigh NC Facebook
Storm update: Facility visiting, community volunteer passes, home leaves and work release employment activities that were paused for the winter storm are scheduled to r…...
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Bill Summary for S 421 (2025-2026) Legislative Reporting Service
Senate Bill 421 (Public) Filed Monday, March 24, 2025 AN ACT TO REFORM PRISON LABOR LAWS IN NORTH CAROLINA TO ENSURE FAIR COMPENSATION, MEANINGFUL REHABILITATION, EQUITABLE WORK OPPORTUNITIES, AND PROTECTIONS AGAINST LABOR EXPLOITATION. Repeals the following sections of Article 3, Labor of Prisoners, in GS Chapter 148: GS 148-26 (State policy on employment of prisoners); GS 148-26.1 (Definitions); GS 148-26.5 (Pay and time allowances for work)...
https://lrs.sog.unc.edu/billsum/s-421-2025-2026
NC becomes first state to track prisoner reentry data with online dashboard
Updated: 13 hours ago “They’re really focused on making it easier to pay and having more consistent fare payment across all of CATS services." Updated: moments ago “‘Protect & Serve’ is more than just words on a patrol car; it’s a commitment to our citizens that starts long before the shift begins." Updated: 10 minutes ago Volunteers fanned out across the Jackson County area early Wednesday to count the number...
https://www.1011now.com/video/2026/01/06/nc-becomes-first-state-track-prisoner-reentry-data-with-online-dashboard/
Central Prison NCpedia
Central Prison in Raleigh has played a significant role in the North Carolina criminal justice system since the nineteenth century. It was established in 1884, after the North Carolina Constitution of 1868 mandated the creation of a state prison to address concerns about inconsistent and cruel punishment and mounting costs at county jails.
https://www.ncpedia.org/central-prison
South Raleigh Reentry Center
Facility Leader: Jessica Packwood, Facility Director Jessica Packwood was named Facility Director at South Raleigh Reentry Center in October 2023. She had most recently served as a Business Unit Learning and Development manager at CoreCivic's Facility Support Center. Jessica has held a variety of responsibilities since joining CoreCivic in 2008, including as an Inmate Jobs Coordinator, and as a Corrections Officer at the La Palma Correctional ...
https://www.corecivic.com/facilities/south-raleigh-reentry-center
Human, civil rights call on NC officials to ease prison overcrowding • NC Newsline
16:44 News Story Human, civil rights call on NC officials to ease prison overcrowding Advocates say transfers resulting from Hurricane Helene have created dangerous conditions in multiple facilities A coalition of eight North Carolina human and civil rights groups are demanding the release of nearly 2,000 incarcerated people to ease what they are calling “dangerous, inhumane overcrowding,” in state prisons — a situation exacerbated by Hurrican...
https://ncnewsline.com/2024/11/01/human-civil-rights-call-on-nc-officials-to-ease-prison-overcrowding/
We’re heading to Cleveland for NCHEP 2026! 📣✨ This year’s theme—“Beyond Access”—speaks to the core of who we are. Our community fought hard to open the door to higher education in prison. Now the work is about what comes next: deeper learning, stronger support, and real opportunities for justice-impacted scholars.
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Union Supply Direct - North Carolina Inmate Package - Home
Please select one of our packages Spring Package Family and friends can order a Seasonal Package for their incarcerated individual in North Carolina Department Adult Correction for statewide purchase. The items presented on the shopping pages are pre-approved so you can shop with the assurance that everything we make available is approved.
https://www.ncinmatepackage.com/
NC Correction Institution for Women
JPay offers convenient & affordable correctional services, including money transfer, email, videos, tablets, music, education & parole and probation payments.
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Central Prison - North Carolina History
The North Carolina Constitution of 1868 ordered the establishment of a prison, and in December of 1884 the Central Prison was finished in Raleigh, North Carolina. As the state’s first prison, Central Prison was built “to address concerns about inconsistent and cruel punishment and mounting costs at county jails” as commissioned by the 1868 Constitution (Powell, p.
https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/central-prison/