The Department of Public Safety is taking immediate steps to make prisons safer following a violent attack at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City that claimed the lives of two prison employees this week.
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STATEMENT FROM PUBLIC SAFETY SECRETARY ERIK A. HOOKS
Two prison employees were killed and several others injured in an incident this afternoon at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City.
The Department of Public Safety is releasing the names of employees who died today at Pasquotank Correctional Institution.
Gov. Roy Cooper shared the following statement on the deaths of employees at Pasquotank Correctional Institution:
As Hurricane Nate made landfall on the Gulf Coast and moved northward through western North Carolina as a Tropical Depression, many counties, including Ashe, Burke and Caldwell counties, saw damaging effects.
Department of Information Technology Secretary and State Chief Information Officer Eric Boyette and Department of Public Safety Secretary Erik Hooks delivered school supplies today to D.S. Johnson Elementary School in Rocky Mount as part of a drive organized by Governor Roy Cooper.
North Carolina is sending more help to Puerto Rico as the island continues to recover and rebuild from devastation caused after Hurricane Maria struck September 20.
Governor Roy Cooper today welcomed dozens of members of swift water rescue teams from across North Carolina to the Executive Mansion and thanked them for their service during Hurricane Matthew.
North Carolina Emergency Management Director Michael Sprayberry was installed this week as the president of the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA), beginning a one-year term leading the professional organization of emergency managers.