Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This story was updated Jan. 1 to reflect new details from arrest warrants. An off-duty Greensboro police officer was killed Saturday, prompting a statewide Blue Alert to seek the public’s help ...
Inmate deaths in North Carolina jails have climbed year after year since 2016. In 2021, 67 inmates died in jails or in hospitals after becoming infirm in jail. That’s a 40 percent increase from ...
Greensboro Police Sgt. Philip Dale Nix was killed while he was off-duty Dec. 20, 2023. He served with the department for 23 years.
A number of states collect some form of death data from all their jails. In others, the reporting process is far from comprehensive. Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population.
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.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. There have been a total of 43 executions in North Carolina, under the current statute, since it was adopted in 1977. All of the people executed were convicted of murder.
Bertie Correctional Institution is a state men's prison in Windsor, North Carolina, first opened in August 2006, and operated by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. As one of the state's four largest prisons, the official capacity is 1,400 prisoners, all held in Close Custody. [1] The site is near the Cashie River.
An off-duty police officer was fatally shot after witnessing a crime at a North Carolina gas station.. The unnamed Greensboro Police Sergeant witnessed a crime occurring at a local g as station ...