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In 1901, as demand for inmate labor dwindled from the private sector, the state legislature passed the Good Roads Policy, which legalized the use of inmate labor for the creation and maintenance of North Carolina roads. Horse drawn prison cages were moved from place to place to move the inmate labor force to areas needed for the road projects. [3]
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation maintains the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry. [7] The Crime Reporting Unit is responsible for the collection of data from law enforcement agencies across North Carolina. In 2018, the SBI received its seventh re-accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. [8]
The North Carolina Structured Sentencing Act was adopted and implemented in order to give the judge a specific set of standards to follow when sentencing a person. There was a need to change the way that criminals were sentenced in order to lower the prison population, and ensure that the people that were spending time in prison were there for necessary reasons, and that they were serving an ...
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.
House Bill 607, Various Court Changes: Makes changes affecting the North Carolina court system. Under Section 1a of the bill, dismissed charges and not guilty verdicts shall not be expunged ...
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]
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In 2014, the Business Court Modernization Act became law, [29] providing for, among other things, a direct right of appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court, expanding on the longstanding practice of issuing written opinions, and refining the court's case type jurisdiction. [29] There are a distinct set of North Carolina Business Court Rules ...