The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) just evacuated over 800 men from Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine due to prolonged outages of water and power from the devastation of Hurricane Helene.
The evacuation was completed on Tuesday, with inmates being relocated to seven other facilities across the state.
The 841 male offenders were transferred to the following prisons:
- Scotland Correctional Institution (Laurinburg)
- Tabor Correctional Institution (Tabor City)
- Nash Correctional Institution (Nashville)
- Eastern Correctional Institution (Maury)
- Southern Correctional Institution (Troy)
- Maury Correctional Institution (Maury)
- Harnett Correctional Institution (Lillington)
This follows the evacuation of over 400 female inmates on Monday from Western Correctional Center for Women and Black Mountain Substance Abuse Treatment Center. Those women were sent to:
- Anson Correctional Institution (Polkton)
- N.C. Correctional Institution for Women (Raleigh)
- North Piedmont Confinement in Response to Violation Center (Lexington)
NCDAC assured that all offenders and staff are safe and urged families not to contact the prisons directly, as updates will be made available through the NCDAC Offender Locator within 24 hours. The duration of these relocations depends on how quickly water and power services are restored.
