Published Tue, Aug 09, 2011 06:07 AM
Modified Mon, Aug 08, 2011 10:20 PM

State set to close Durham prison Oct. 1

Article

0 COMMENTS

Email Print Order Reprint

Share This

Text

tool goes here

Staff reports

RALEIGH -- Durham Correctional Center will close on Oct. 1, the first of four minimum-security prisons to be shut as part of the legislature's plan to save nearly $11 million a year.

Also scheduled to close are Haywood Correctional Center on Nov. 1, and Cabarrus and Charlotte correctional centers on Dec. 1. Inmates will be transferred to other prisons before the closing dates.

Durham Correctional Center, built in 1925 at 3900 Guess Road, houses 216 adult male inmates and has a 42-member staff.

Keith Acree, spokesman for the Department of Correction, said the closings will eliminate 203 positions and save $10.7 million a year. The four prisons have a combined 798 inmate beds.

The department will try to transfer workers into vacant positions elsewhere. If vacancies can't be found, they'll be laid off.

The state hasn't decided what to do with the soon-to-be-vacant prison properties.

Get the biggest news in your email or cellphone as it's happening. Sign up for breaking news alerts.

Email Print Order Reprint

More Crime/Safety

Woman killed outside Chapel Hill school had sought protective order
Ali Cherfaoui threatened to kill Chahnaz Kebaier if she took the couple’s children, a court motion says.
Edwards jury starts seventh day of deliberations
After an undisclosed issue is discussed in a closed courtroom, the jurors are again trying to decide whether John Edwards violated campaign finance laws.
Pedestrian struck and killed in Raleigh
A man crossing New Bern Avenue was hit and killed Monday night, according to Raleigh police
Two shot in Durham
Durham police are investigating a shooting that occurred just after midnight Tuesday.
Saunders: Arrests, but little outrage in girl’s death
Thirteen months ago children were playing on Atka Court in Durham on a warm spring night when a man in a green van shot and killed 13-year-old Shakanah China. Isn’t the murder of an innocent little girl enough by itself to spark outrage?
2 men charged in Edgecombe County deaths
Two men charged in the deaths of three people in Pitt County last month have now been charged with killing two people in Edgecombe County in March.
Victim foils robbery at Raleigh check-cashing business
A robbery victim and workers at a check-cashing office chased down a man who apparently fled with the money and held him until police arrived.
Friend: Dead woman feared for her life
“This man is going to kill me; she always said that,” a friend of Chahnaz Kebaier said Sunday.
Train hits pedestrian at Smithfield crossing
A railroad train hit a pedestrian at a crossing on East Peedin Road in Smithfield early Sunday, officials said.
John Edwards jury resumes deliberation for 7th day
The jury in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial is deliberating for a seventh day after a judge gave the panel a stern warning not to talk about the case over the weekend.