North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 148 State Prison System

Article 1 - Organization and Management.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-1. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1262, s. 10
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-2. Prison moneys and earnings
(a) Persons authorized to collect or receive the moneys and earnings of the State prison system shall enter into bonds payable to the State...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-3. Prison property
(a) The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall subject to the provisions of G.S. 143-341, have control and custody...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-4. Control and custody of prisoners; authorizing prisoner to leave place of confinement
The Secretary of Public Safety shall have control and custody of all prisoners serving sentence in the State prison system, and such prisoners shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-4.1. Release of inmates
(a) Whenever the Secretary of Public Safety determines from data compiled by the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety that...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-5. Secretary to manage prison property
The Secretary of Public Safety shall manage and have charge of all the property and effects of the State prison system, and conduct all...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-5.1. Confining inmates away from victims
If a victim or immediate family member of a victim requests that, for the safety of the victim or family member, an inmate be...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-6. Custody, employment and hiring out of convicts
The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall provide for receiving, and keeping in custody until discharged by law, all...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-7. Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 233, s. 1
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-8. Transferred to � 66-58(b)(15) by Session Laws 1975, c. 730, s. 2
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-8.1. Transferred to � 66-58(b)(16) by Session Laws 1975, c. 730, s. 3
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-9. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 476, s. 138
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-10. Department of Environment and Natural Resources to supervise sanitary and health conditions of prisoners
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall have general supervision over the sanitary and health conditions of the central prison, over the prison...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-10.1. Employment of clinical chaplains for inmates
The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety is authorized and directed to employ clinical chaplains to provide moral, spiritual and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-10.2. Policy: Certain inmates not to contact family members of victims
(a) It shall be the policy of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety to prohibit death row inmates from...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-10.3. Electronic monitoring costs
Personnel, equipment, and other costs of providing electronic monitoring of pretrial or sentenced offenders shall be reimbursed to the Division of Adult Correction of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-10.4. Statewide Misdemeanant Confinement Fund
(a) Definitions. - The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Division. - Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety. (2)...

Article 2 - Prison Regulations.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-11. Authority to adopt rules; authority to designate uniforms
(a) The Secretary shall adopt rules for the government of the State prison system. The Secretary shall have the rules that pertain to enforcing...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-12. Diagnostic and classification programs
(a) The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall, as soon as practicable, establish diagnostic centers to make social, medical,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-13. Regulations as to custody grades, privileges, gain time credit, etc
(a) The Secretary of Public Safety may issue regulations regarding the grades of custody in which State prisoners are kept, the privileges and restrictions...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-14 through 148-17. Repealed by Session Laws 1943, c. 409
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-18. Wages, allowances and loans
(a) Prisoners employed by Correction Enterprises shall be compensated as set forth in Article 14 of this Chapter. Prisoners participating in work assignments established...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-18.1. Confiscation of unauthorized articles
Any item of personal property which a prisoner in any correctional facility is prohibited from possessing by State law or which is not authorized...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-19. Health services
(a) The general policies, rules and regulations of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall prescribe standards for health...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-19.1. Exemption from licensure and certificate of need
(a) Inpatient chemical dependency or substance abuse facilities that provide services exclusively to inmates of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-19.2. Mandatory HIV testing
Each person sentenced to imprisonment and committed to the custody of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall be...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-20. Corporal punishment of prisoners prohibited
It is unlawful for the Secretary of Public Safety or any other person having the care, custody, or control of any prisoner in this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-21. Repealed by Session Laws 1963, c. 1174, s. 5
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-22. Treatment programs
(a) The general policies, rules and regulations of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall provide for humane treatment...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-22.1. Educational facilities and programs for selected inmates
(a) The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety is authorized to take advantage of aid available from any source in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-22.2. Procedure when surgical operations on inmates are necessary
The medical staff of any penal institution of the State of North Carolina is hereby authorized to perform or cause to be performed by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-23. Prison employees not to use intoxicants, narcotic drugs or profanity
No one addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages, or narcotic drugs, shall be employed as superintendent, warden, guard, or in any other position...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-23.1. Tobacco products prohibited on State correctional facilities premises
(a) The General Assembly finds that in order to protect the health, welfare, and comfort of inmates in the custody of the Division of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-23.2. Mobile phones prohibited on State correctional facilities premises
Except as authorized by Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety policy, no person shall possess a mobile telephone or other...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-24. Religious services
The general policies, rules and regulations of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall provide for religious services to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-25. Secretary to investigate death of convicts
The Secretary of Public Safety, upon information of the death of a convict other than by natural causes, shall investigate the cause thereof and...

Article 3 - Labor of Prisoners.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-26. State policy on employment of prisoners
(a) It is declared to be the public policy of the State of North Carolina that all able-bodied prison inmates shall be required to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-26.1. Definitions
The following definitions apply: (1) to (3) Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 709, s. 1, effective July 1, 1983. (4) to (7) Repealed...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-26.2 through 148-26.4. Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 709, s. 1, effective July 1, 1983
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-26.5. Pay and time allowances for work
The provisions of G.S. 148-18 and 148-13 shall be applicable to inmate work on local or State public work projects contracted for by the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-27. Repealed by Session Laws 2007-398, s. 3, effective August 21, 2007
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-28. Sentencing prisoners to Central Prison; youthful offenders
When a sentenced offender is to be taken to the Central Prison at Raleigh, a sheriff or other appropriate officer of the county shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-29. Transportation of convicts to prison; reimbursement to counties; sheriff's expense affidavit
(a) The sheriff having in charge any prisoner to be taken to the State prison system shall send the prisoner to the custody of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-30. Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-31. Maintenance of Central Prison; warden; powers and duties
The Central Prison shall be maintained in such a manner as to conform to all the requirements of Article XI of the State Constitution,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-32. Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 450, s. 2
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-32.1. Local confinement, costs, alternate facilities, parole, work release
(a) Repealed by Session Laws 2009-451, s. 19.22A, effective July 1, 2009. (b) In the event that the custodian of the local confinement facility...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-32.2. Community work crew fee
The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety may charge a fee to any unit of local government to which it...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-33. Prison labor furnished other State agencies
The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety may furnish to any of the other State departments, State institutions, or agencies,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-33.1. Sentencing, quartering, and control of prisoners with work-release privileges
(a) Whenever a person is sentenced to imprisonment for a term to be served in the State prison system or a local confinement facility,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-33.2. Restitution by prisoners with work-release privileges
(a) Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 474, s. 4. (b) As a rehabilitative measure, the Secretary of Public Safety is authorized to require...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-34 through 148-35. Repealed by Session Laws 1957, c. 349, s. 11
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-36. Secretary of Public Safety to control classification and operation of prison facilities
All facilities established or acquired by the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall be under the administrative control and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-37. Additional facilities authorized; contractual arrangements
(a) Subject to the provisions of G.S. 143-341, the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety may establish additional facilities for...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-37.1. Prohibition on private prisons housing out-of-state inmates
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section or authorized by North Carolina law, no municipality, county, or private entity may authorize, construct, own,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-37.2. Lease-purchase of prison facilities
(a) Authorization. - The Secretary of Public Safety may, as provided in this section, enter contracts with private for-profit or nonprofit firms for the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-37.3. Authority of private correctional officers employed pursuant to a contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons
(a) Correctional officers and security supervisors employed at private correctional facilities pursuant to a contract between their employer and the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-38 through 148-39. Repealed by Session Laws 1957, c. 349, s. 11
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-40. Recapture of escaped prisoners
The rules and regulations for the government of the State prison system may provide for the recapture of convicts that may escape, or any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-41. Recapture of escaping prisoners; reward
The Secretary of Public Safety shall use every means possible to recapture, regardless of expense, any prisoners escaping from or leaving without permission any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-42. Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-43. Repealed by Session Laws 1963, c. 1174, s. 5
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-44. Separation as to sex
The Department shall provide quarters for female prisoners separate from those for male prisoners. (1933, c. 172, s. 25; 1947, c. 262, s. 2;...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-45. Escaping or attempting escape from State prison system; failure of conditionally and temporarily released prisoners and certain youthful offenders to return to custody of Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety
(a) Any person in the custody of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety in any of the classifications hereinafter...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-46. Degree of protection against violence allowed
(a) When any prisoner, or several combined shall offer violence to any officer, overseer, or guard, or to any fellow prisoner, or attempt to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-46.1. Inflicting or assisting in infliction of self injury to prisoner resulting in incapacity to perform assigned duties
Any person serving a sentence or sentences within the State prison system who, during the term of such imprisonment, willfully and intentionally inflicts upon...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-46.2. Procedure when consent is refused by prisoner
When the Secretary of Public Safety finds as a fact that the injury to any prisoner was willfully and intentionally self-inflicted and that an...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-47. Disposition of child born of female prisoner
Any child born of a female prisoner while she is in custody shall as soon as practicable be surrendered to the director of social...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-48. Parole powers of Parole Commission unaffected
Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to limit or restrict the power of the Parole Commission to parole prisoners under such conditions as...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-49. Prison indebtedness not assumed by Board of Transportation
The Board of Transportation shall not assume or pay off any part of the deficit of the State prison existing on March 22, 1933....

Article 3A - Facilities and Programs for Youthful Offenders.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-49.1 through 148-49.9. Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 732, s. 1

Article 3B - Facilities and Programs for Youthful Offenders.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-49.10 through 148-49.16. Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 538, s. 34

Article 4 - Paroles.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-50 through 148-51. Repealed by Session Laws 1955, c. 867, s. 13
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-51.1. Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 226, s. 9, effective May 23, 1985
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-52. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1262, s. 10
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-52.1. Prohibited political activities of member of Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission
No member of the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission shall be permitted to use his position to influence elections or the political action of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-53. Investigators and investigations of cases of prisoners
For the purpose of investigating the cases of prisoners, the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-54. Parole and post-release supervision supervisors provided for; duties
The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to appoint a sufficient number of competent parole and post-release...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-54.1. Repealed by Session Laws 1955, c. 867, s. 13
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-55. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1262, s. 10
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-56. Assistance in supervision of parolees or post-release supervisees and preparation of case histories
Upon request by the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission, the county directors of social services shall assist in the supervision of parolees and shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-57. Rules and regulations for parole consideration
The Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to set up and establish rules and regulations in accordance with which prisoners...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-57.1. Restitution as a condition of parole or post-release supervision
(a) Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 474, s. 5. (b) As a rehabilitative measure, the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission is authorized to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-58 through 148-58.1. Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-59. Duties of clerks of superior courts as to commitments; statements filed with Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety
The several clerks of the superior courts shall attach to the commitment of each prisoner sentenced in such courts a statement furnishing such information...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-60. Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-60.1. Allowances for paroled prisoner and prisoner on post-release supervision
Upon the release of any prisoner upon parole or post-release supervision, the superintendent or warden of the institution shall provide the prisoner with suitable...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-60.2 through 148-62. Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-62.1. Entitlement of indigent parolee and post-release supervisee to counsel, in discretion of Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission
Any parolee or post-release supervisee who is an indigent under the terms of G.S. 7A-450(a) may be determined entitled, in the discretion of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-63. Arrest powers of police officers
Any officer who is authorized to make arrests of fugitives from justice shall have full authority and power to arrest any parolee whose parole...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-64. Cooperation of prison and parole officials and employees
The officials and employees of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety and the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-64.1. Early conditional release of inmates subject to a removal order; revocation of release
(a) Eligibility for Early Release. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission may conditionally release an inmate into...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65. Repealed by Session Laws 1955, c. 867, s. 13

Article 4A - Out-of-State Parolee Supervision.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.1. Repealed by Session Laws 2002-166, s. 2, effective October 23, 2003
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.1A. Repealed by Session Laws 2002-166, s. 2, effective October 23, 2003
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.2. Repealed by Session Laws 2002-166, s. 2, effective October 23, 2003
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.3. Repealed by Session Laws 2002-166, s. 2, effective October 23, 2003

Article 4B - Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.4. Short title
This Article may be cited as "The Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision." (2002-166, s. 1; 2008-189, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.5. Governor to execute compact; form of compact
The Governor of North Carolina is authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of North Carolina with any state...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.6. Implementation of the compact
(a) The North Carolina State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision shall be established, consisting of 14 members. North Carolina's Commissioner to the Interstate...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.7. Fees
(a) Persons convicted in this State who make a request for transfer to another state pursuant to the compact shall pay a transfer application...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.8. Interstate parole and probation hearing procedures
(a) Where supervision of an offender is being administered pursuant to the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision, the appropriate judicial or administrative authorities...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-65.9. North Carolina sentence to be served in another jurisdiction
The Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Public Safety, may direct that the balance of any sentence imposed...

Article 5 - Farming Out Convicts.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-66. Cities and towns and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services may contract for prison labor
The corporate authorities of any city or town may contract in writing with the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-67. Hiring to cities and towns and State Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall in their discretion, upon application to them, hire to the corporate authorities...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-68. Payment of contract price; interest; enforcement of contracts
The corporate authorities of any city or town so hiring convicts shall pay into the treasury of the State for the labor of any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-69. Agents; levy of taxes; payment of costs and expenses
The corporate authorities of any city or town so hiring convicts may appoint and remove at will all such necessary agents to superintend the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-70. Management and care of inmates
The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety in all contracts for labor shall provide for feeding and clothing the inmates...

Article 5A - Prison Labor for Farm Work.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-70.1 through 148-70.7. Repealed by Session Laws 1957, c. 349, s. 11

Article 6 - Reformatory.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-71 through 148-73. Repealed by Session Laws 1947, c. 262, s. 3

Article 7 - Records, Statistics, Research and Planning.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-74. Records Section
Case records and related materials compiled for the use of the Secretary of Public Safety and the Parole Commission shall be maintained in a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-75. Repealed by Session Laws 1963, c. 1174, s. 5
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-76. Duties of Records Section
The Records Section shall maintain the combined case records and receive and collect fingerprints, photographs, and other information to assist in locating, identifying, and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-77. Repealed by Session Laws 2012-168, s. 5(a), effective July 12, 2012
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-78. Reports
The Secretary of Public Safety may prepare and release reports on the work of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-79. Repealed by Session Laws 1965, c. 1049, s. 2
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-80. Seal of Records Section; certification of records
A seal shall be provided to be affixed to any paper, record, copy or form or true copy of any of the same in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-81. Repealed by Session Laws 1965, c. 1049, s. 2

Article 8 - Compensation to Persons Erroneously Convicted of Felonies.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-82. Provision for compensation
(a) Any person who, having been convicted of a felony and having been imprisoned therefor in a State prison of this State, and who...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-83. Form, requisites and contents of petition; nature of hearing
Such petition shall be addressed to the Industrial Commission, and must include a full statement of the facts upon which the claim is based,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-84. Evidence; action by Industrial Commission; payment and amount of compensation
(a) At the hearing the claimant may introduce evidence in the form of affidavits or testimony to support the claim, and the Attorney General...

Article 9 - Prison Advisory Council.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-85 through 148-88. Repealed by Session Laws 1957, c. 349, s. 11

Article 10 - Interstate Agreement on Detainers.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-89 through 148-95. Transferred to �� 15A-761 to 15A-767 by Session Laws 1973, c. 1286, s. 22, as amended by Session Laws 1975, c. 573
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-96 through 148-100. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 11 - Inmate Grievance Commission.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-101 through 148-118. Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 746, s. 1

Article 11A - Corrections Administrative Remedy Procedure.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.1. Authority
The Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety shall adopt an Administrative Remedy Procedure in compliance with 42 U.S.C. 1997, the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.2. Effect
(a) Upon approval of the Administrative Remedy Procedure by a federal court as authorized and required by 42 U.S.C. 1997(e)(a), and the implementation of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.3. Publication of procedure
The Administrative Remedy Procedure shall be published in the North Carolina Register. (1987, c. 746, s. 2.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.4. Definitions
For purposes of this Article, "prisoner" shall refer to all prisoners in the physical custody of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.5. Records confidentiality
All reports, investigations, and like supporting documents prepared by the Division for purposes of responding to the prisoner's request for an administrative remedy shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.6. Grievance Resolution Board
The Grievance Resolution Board is established as a separate agency within the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety. It shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.7. Removal of members
The Governor may remove any member of the Grievance Resolution Board for one or more of the following reasons: (1) Conviction of a crime...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.8. Appointment, salary, and authority of Executive Director and inmate grievance examiners
(a) The Grievance Resolution Board shall appoint an Executive Director and grievance examiners after consultation with the Secretary of Public Safety. The Executive Director...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-118.9. Investigatory power of the Grievance Resolution Board
The Secretary of Public Safety may request that the Grievance Resolution Board investigate matters involving broad policy concerns. The Grievance Resolution Board may convene...

Article 12 - Interstate Corrections Compact.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-119. Short title
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the Interstate Corrections Compact. (1979, c. 623.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-120. Governor to execute; form of compact
The Governor of North Carolina is hereby authorized and requested to execute, on behalf of the State of North Carolina, with any other state...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-121. Proceedings to be open; all documents public records; exception
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, at least 30 days before a transfer of a North Carolina inmate to another...

Article 13 - Transfer of Convicted Foreign Citizens Under Federal Treaty.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-122. Transfer of convicted foreign citizens under treaty; consent by Governor
If a treaty in effect between the United States and a foreign country provides for the transfer or exchange of convicted offenders to the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-123. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-124. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-125. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-126. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-127. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 14 - Correction Enterprises.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-128. Authorization for Correction Enterprises
The Section of Correction Enterprises of the Division of Adult Correction is established as a division of the Division of Adult Correction of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-129. Purposes of Correction Enterprises
Correction Enterprises shall serve all of the following purposes to: (1) Provide incarcerated offenders a work and training environment that emulates private industry. (2)...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-130. Correction Enterprises Fund
(a) All revenues from the sale of articles and commodities manufactured or produced by Correction Enterprises shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-131. Powers and responsibilities
In order to fulfill the purposes set forth in G.S. 148-129, the Section of Correction Enterprises of the Division of Adult Correction is authorized...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-132. Distribution of products and services
The Section of Correction Enterprises of the Division of Adult Correction is empowered and authorized to market and sell products and services produced by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-133. Inmate wages and conditions of employment
(a) The Secretary shall adopt rules for the administration and management of personnel policies for inmates who work for Correction Enterprises, including wages, working...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-134. Preference for Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety products
All departments, institutions, and agencies of this State that are supported in whole or in part by the State shall give preference to Correction...

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