148-11. Authority to adopt rules; authority to designate uniforms. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) The Secretary shall adopt rules for the government of the State prison system. The Secretary shall have the rules that pertain to enforcing discipline read to every prisoner when received in the State prison system and a printed copy of […]
148-12. Diagnostic and classification programs. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety shall, as soon as practicable, establish diagnostic centers to make social, medical, and psychological studies of persons committed to the Division. Full diagnostic studies shall be made before initial classification […]
148-13. Regulations as to custody grades, privileges, gain time credit, etc. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) The Secretary of Public Safety may issue regulations regarding the grades of custody in which State prisoners are kept, the privileges and restrictions applicable to each custody grade, and the amount of cash, clothing, etc., to be awarded […]
148-18. Wages, allowances and loans. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) Prisoners employed by Correction Enterprises shall be compensated as set forth in Article 14 of this Chapter. Prisoners participating in work assignments established by the Section of Prisons of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice shall be compensated at rates fixed by […]
148-18.1. Confiscation of unauthorized articles. [Effective January 1, 2023] Any item of personal property which a prisoner in any correctional facility is prohibited from possessing by State law or which is not authorized by rules adopted by the Secretary of the Department of Adult Correction shall, when found in the possession of a prisoner, be […]
148-19. Health services. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) The general policies, rules, and regulations of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety shall prescribe standards for health services to prisoners, which shall include preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic measures on both an outpatient and a hospital basis, for […]
148-19.1. Exemption from licensure and certificate of need. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) Inpatient chemical dependency or substance abuse facilities that provide services exclusively to inmates of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety shall be exempt from licensure by the Department of Health and Human Services […]
148-19.2. Mandatory HIV testing. [Effective until January 1, 2023] Each person sentenced to imprisonment and committed to the custody of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety shall be tested to determine whether the person is HIV positive. Each inmate who has not previously tested positive for HIV […]
148-19.3. Health care services to county prisoners. (a) All charges that are the responsibility of the transferring county for health care services provided to prisoners held under a safekeeping order pursuant to G.S. 162-39, or the Statewide Misdemeanant Confinement Program pursuant to G.S. 148-32.1, shall not be paid by the Department and shall be submitted […]
148-20. Corporal punishment of prisoners prohibited. [Effective until January 1, 2023] It is unlawful for the Secretary of Public Safety or any other person having the care, custody, or control of any prisoner in this State to make or enforce any rule or regulation providing for the whipping, flogging, or administration of any similar corporal […]
148-22. Treatment programs. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) The general policies, rules, and regulations of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety shall provide for humane treatment of prisoners and for programs to effect their correction and return to the community as promptly as practicable. Visits and […]
148-22.1. Educational facilities and programs for selected inmates. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety is authorized to take advantage of aid available from any source in establishing facilities and developing programs to provide inmates of the State prison system with such […]
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 competent and skillful surgeons surgical operations upon any inmate when such operation is necessary for the improvement of the physical condition of […]
148-23. Prison employees not to use intoxicants, narcotic drugs or profanity. [Effective until January 1, 2023] No one addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages, or narcotic drugs, shall be employed as superintendent, warden, guard, or in any other position connected with the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public […]
148-23.1. Tobacco products prohibited on State correctional facilities premises. [Effective until January 1, 2023] (a) The General Assembly finds that in order to protect the health, welfare, and comfort of inmates in the custody of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety and to reduce the costs of […]
148-23.2. Mobile phones prohibited on State correctional facilities premises. [Effective until January 1, 2023] Except as authorized by Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety policy, no person shall possess a mobile telephone or other wireless communications device on the premises of a State correctional facility. Notwithstanding the provisions […]
148-24. Religious services. [Effective until January 1, 2023] The general policies, rules and regulations of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety shall provide for religious services to be held in all units of the State prison system on Sunday and at such other times as may be […]
148-25. Secretary to investigate death of convicts. [Effective until January 1, 2023] The Secretary of Public Safety, upon information of the death of a convict other than by natural causes, shall investigate the cause thereof and report the result of such investigation to the Governor, and for this purpose the Secretary may administer oaths and […]
