Chapter 148

113 published sections.

Article 1 - Organization and Management

N.C.G.S. § 148-2 — Prison moneys and earnings.
N.C.G.S. § 148-3 — Prison property.
N.C.G.S. § 148-4 — Control and custody of prisoners; authorizing prisoner to leave place of confinement.
N.C.G.S. § 148-4.1 — Release of inmates.
N.C.G.S. § 148-5 — Secretary to manage prison property.
N.C.G.S. § 148-5.1 — Confining inmates away from victims.
N.C.G.S. § 148-5.5 — (Delayed expiration – see note) Training and authority of security guards.
N.C.G.S. § 148-6 — Custody, employment and hiring out of convicts.
N.C.G.S. § 148-10 — Department of Adult Correction to supervise sanitary and health conditions of prisoners.
N.C.G.S. § 148-10.1 — Employment of clinical chaplains for inmates.
N.C.G.S. § 148-10.2 — Policy: Certain inmates not to contact family members of victims.
N.C.G.S. § 148-10.3 — Electronic monitoring costs.
N.C.G.S. § 148-10.4 — Statewide Misdemeanant Confinement Fund.
N.C.G.S. § 148-10.5 — Facilitation of reentry.

Article 2 - Prison Regulations

N.C.G.S. § 148-11 — Authority to adopt rules; authority to designate uniforms.
N.C.G.S. § 148-12 — Diagnostic and classification programs.
N.C.G.S. § 148-13 — Regulations as to custody grades, privileges, gain time credit, etc.
N.C.G.S. § 148-18 — Wages, allowances and loans.
N.C.G.S. § 148-18.1 — Confiscation of unauthorized articles.
N.C.G.S. § 148-19 — Health services.
N.C.G.S. § 148-19.1 — Exemption from licensure.
N.C.G.S. § 148-19.2 — Mandatory HIV testing.
N.C.G.S. § 148-19.3 — Health care services to county prisoners.
N.C.G.S. § 148-20 — Corporal punishment of prisoners prohibited.
N.C.G.S. § 148-22 — Treatment programs.
N.C.G.S. § 148-22.1 — Educational facilities and programs for selected inmates.
N.C.G.S. § 148-22.2 — Procedure when surgical operations on inmates are necessary.
N.C.G.S. § 148-23 — Prison employees not to use intoxicants, narcotic drugs or profanity.
N.C.G.S. § 148-23.1 — Tobacco products prohibited on State correctional facilities premises.
N.C.G.S. § 148-23.2 — Mobile phones prohibited on State correctional facilities premises.
N.C.G.S. § 148-24 — Religious services.
N.C.G.S. § 148-25 — Secretary to investigate death of convicts.

Article 2B - Dignity for Women Incarcerated in Prison Facilities

N.C.G.S. § 148-25.1 — Definitions.
N.C.G.S. § 148-25.2 — Care for female incarcerated persons related to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum recovery.
N.C.G.S. § 148-25.3 — Inspection by correctional facility employees.
N.C.G.S. § 148-25.4 — Access to menstrual products.
N.C.G.S. § 148-25.5 — Training and technical assistance.

Article 3 - Labor of Prisoners

N.C.G.S. § 148-26 — State policy on employment of prisoners.
N.C.G.S. § 148-26.1 — Definitions.
N.C.G.S. § 148-26.5 — Pay and time allowances for work.
N.C.G.S. § 148-28 — Sentencing prisoners to Central Prison; youthful offenders.
N.C.G.S. § 148-29 — Transportation of convicts to prison; reimbursement to counties; sheriff's expense affidavit.
N.C.G.S. § 148-31 — Maintenance of Central Prison; warden; powers and duties.
N.C.G.S. § 148-32.1 — Local confinement, costs, alternate facilities, parole, work release.
N.C.G.S. § 148-32.2 — Community work crew fee.
N.C.G.S. § 148-32.3 — Inmate Construction Program.
N.C.G.S. § 148-33 — Prison labor furnished other State agencies.
N.C.G.S. § 148-33.1 — Sentencing, quartering, and control of prisoners with work-release privileges.
N.C.G.S. § 148-33.2 — Restitution by prisoners with work-release privileges.
N.C.G.S. § 148-36 — Secretary of the Department of Adult Correction to control classification and operation of prison facilities.
N.C.G.S. § 148-37 — Additional facilities authorized; contractual arrangements.
N.C.G.S. § 148-37.1 — Prohibition on private prisons housing out-of-state inmates.
N.C.G.S. § 148-37.3 — Authority of private correctional officers employed pursuant to a contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
N.C.G.S. § 148-40 — Recapture of escaped prisoners.
N.C.G.S. § 148-41 — Recapture of escaping prisoners; reward.
N.C.G.S. § 148-44 — Separation as to sex.
N.C.G.S. § 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 Prisons of the Department of Adult Correction.
N.C.G.S. § 148-46 — Degree of protection against violence allowed.
N.C.G.S. § 148-46.1 — Inflicting or assisting in infliction of self injury to prisoner resulting in incapacity to perform assigned duties.
N.C.G.S. § 148-46.2 — Procedure when consent is refused by prisoner.
N.C.G.S. § 148-47 — Disposition of child born of female prisoner.
N.C.G.S. § 148-48 — Parole powers of Parole Commission unaffected.
N.C.G.S. § 148-49 — Prison indebtedness not assumed by Board of Transportation.

Article 4 - Paroles

N.C.G.S. § 148-52.1 — Prohibited political activities of member of Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission.
N.C.G.S. § 148-53 — Investigators and investigations of cases of prisoners.
N.C.G.S. § 148-54 — Parole and post-release supervision supervisors provided for; duties.
N.C.G.S. § 148-56 — Assistance in supervision of parolees or post-release supervisees and preparation of case histories.
N.C.G.S. § 148-57 — Rules and regulations for parole consideration.
N.C.G.S. § 148-57.1 — Restitution as a condition of parole or post-release supervision.
N.C.G.S. § 148-59 — Duties of clerks of superior courts as to commitments; statements filed with Division of Prisons of the Department of Adult Correction.
N.C.G.S. § 148-60.1 — Allowances for paroled prisoner and prisoner on post-release supervision.
N.C.G.S. § 148-62.1 — Entitlement of indigent parolee and post-release supervisee to counsel, in discretion of Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission.
N.C.G.S. § 148-63 — Arrest powers of police officers.
N.C.G.S. § 148-64 — Cooperation of prison and parole officials and employees.
N.C.G.S. § 148-64.1 — Early conditional release of inmates subject to a removal order; revocation of release.

Article 4B - Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision

N.C.G.S. § 148-65.4 — Short title.
N.C.G.S. § 148-65.5 — Governor to execute compact; form of compact.
N.C.G.S. § 148-65.6 — Implementation of the compact.
N.C.G.S. § 148-65.7 — Fees.
N.C.G.S. § 148-65.8 — Interstate parole and probation hearing procedures.
N.C.G.S. § 148-65.9 — North Carolina sentence to be served in another jurisdiction.

Article 5 - Farming Out Convicts

N.C.G.S. § 148-66 — Cities and towns and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services may contract for prison labor.
N.C.G.S. § 148-67 — Hiring to cities and towns and State Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
N.C.G.S. § 148-68 — Payment of contract price; interest; enforcement of contracts.
N.C.G.S. § 148-69 — Agents; levy of taxes; payment of costs and expenses.
N.C.G.S. § 148-70 — Management and care of inmates.

Article 7 - Records, Statistics, Research and Planning

N.C.G.S. § 148-74 — Records Section.
N.C.G.S. § 148-76 — Duties of Records Section.
N.C.G.S. § 148-78 — Reports.
N.C.G.S. § 148-80 — Seal of Records Section; certification of records.

Article 8 - Compensation to Persons Erroneously Convicted of Felonies

N.C.G.S. § 148-82 — Provision for compensation.
N.C.G.S. § 148-83 — Form, requisites and contents of petition; nature of hearing.
N.C.G.S. § 148-84 — Evidence; action by Industrial Commission; payment and amount of compensation.

Article 11A - Corrections Administrative Remedy Procedure

N.C.G.S. § 148-118.1 — Authority.
N.C.G.S. § 148-118.2 — Effect.
N.C.G.S. § 148-118.3 — Publication of procedure.
N.C.G.S. § 148-118.4 — Definitions.
N.C.G.S. § 148-118.5 — Records confidentiality.
N.C.G.S. § 148-118.6 — Grievance Resolution Board.
N.C.G.S. § 148-118.7 — Removal of members.
N.C.G.S. § 148-118.8 — Appointment, salary, and authority of Executive Director and inmate grievance examiners.
N.C.G.S. § 148-118.9 — Investigatory power of the Grievance Resolution Board.

Article 12 - Interstate Corrections Compact

N.C.G.S. § 148-119 — Short title.
N.C.G.S. § 148-120 — Governor to execute; form of compact.
N.C.G.S. § 148-121 — Proceedings to be open; all documents public records; exception.

Article 13 - Transfer of Convicted Foreign Citizens Under Federal Treaty

N.C.G.S. § 148-122 — Transfer of convicted foreign citizens under treaty; consent by Governor.

Article 14 - Correction Enterprises

N.C.G.S. § 148-128 — Authorization for Correction Enterprises.
N.C.G.S. § 148-129 — Purposes of Correction Enterprises.
N.C.G.S. § 148-130 — Correction Enterprises Fund.
N.C.G.S. § 148-131 — Powers and responsibilities.
N.C.G.S. § 148-132 — Distribution of products and services.
N.C.G.S. § 148-133 — Inmate wages and conditions of employment.
N.C.G.S. § 148-134 — Preference for Division of Prisons of Department of Adult Correction products.