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Central Prison is a prison operated by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety in
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Funding for the Central Prison was authorized during the Reconstruction era by the North Carolina General Assembly of 1868–1869. Inmates built the prison for 14 years, and granite quarried from an area outside of what would become the east wall of the prison was used to build the facility. The prison's construction was completed in December 1884; the prison, built for $1.25 million, was the first prison in North Carolina. A three story prison industries building, housing the state license plate fabrication shop and a complete print shop, was built in the 1940s. An acute care infirmary hospital with wards for 86 patients, operating rooms, X-ray laboratories, and a pharmacy opened in the 1960s. Two mental health wings with 144 single bed rooms opened in the 1970s. The state placed the prison under extensive renovations in the 1980s. The first phase had a price of $28.8 million. The first phase included a custody control and administration building, a maximum security housing building with 384 single cells, a central services building, and central plant utility systems. The $8.6 million second phase included a three story working resident building, which had 192 single cells for inmates assigned to jobs within the boundaries of the prison.
Central Prison
North Carolina Department of Public Safety. {{coord, 35, 46, 34, N, 78, 39, 24, W, scale:5000, display=title Prisons in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Raleigh, North Carolina Execution sites in the United States 1884 establishments in North Carolina
Raleigh
Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeas ...
, North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia a ...
. The prison, west of Downtown Raleigh, is on of land and is bounded by a double wire fence with a razor ribbon on top. The Department of Public Safety website describes the original building as "castle-like."Central Prison"
North Carolina Department of Correction
The North Carolina Department of Correction (NCDOC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of North Carolina. NCDOC merged with several departments in 2012, and now falls under the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
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History
Funding for the Central Prison was authorized during the Reconstruction era by the North Carolina General Assembly of 1868–1869. Inmates built the prison for 14 years, and granite quarried from an area outside of what would become the east wall of the prison was used to build the facility. The prison's construction was completed in December 1884; the prison, built for $1.25 million, was the first prison in North Carolina. A three story prison industries building, housing the state license plate fabrication shop and a complete print shop, was built in the 1940s. An acute care infirmary hospital with wards for 86 patients, operating rooms, X-ray laboratories, and a pharmacy opened in the 1960s. Two mental health wings with 144 single bed rooms opened in the 1970s. The state placed the prison under extensive renovations in the 1980s. The first phase had a price of $28.8 million. The first phase included a custody control and administration building, a maximum security housing building with 384 single cells, a central services building, and central plant utility systems. The $8.6 million second phase included a three story working resident building, which had 192 single cells for inmates assigned to jobs within the boundaries of the prison.
Location
It is adjacent to Governor Morehead School, a state-operated school for the blind.Notable prisoners
Death row
*Velma Barfield
Margie Velma Barfield ( née Bullard; October 29, 1932 – November 2, 1984) was an American serial killer who was convicted of one murder, but who eventually confessed to six murders in total. Barfield was the first woman in the United States t ...
– American serial killer who was housed at Central Prison due to the lack of a women's death row unit in North Carolina at the time of her execution in 1984. Following her execution, a women's death row unit was established at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women.
* Samuel Flippen – American convicted murderer. Executed on August 18, 2006. Currently the last person executed in North Carolina and at Central Prison.
* James W. Hutchins
James William Hutchins (March 26, 1929 – March 16, 1984) was an American murderer who killed four people in two different states. He was charged with murdering a man in New Mexico in 1954, but was convicted of voluntary manslaughter after claim ...
– American convicted murderer. Executed on March 16, 1984. First person executed since 1976 in North Carolina and at Central Prison.
* Henry Louis Wallace – American serial killer who killed ten women
Non-Death row
*Otto Wood
Otto Wood (1894 – December 31, 1930) was a Depression-era desperado, born in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1894. He began his life of crime at an early age, stealing a bicycle from a boy in North Wilkesboro. He was quickly caught and spent ti ...
– American depression-era desperado and serial prison escapee
* Trystan Andrew Terrell – University of North Carolina at Charlotte shooter
References
External links
Central Prison
North Carolina Department of Public Safety. {{coord, 35, 46, 34, N, 78, 39, 24, W, scale:5000, display=title Prisons in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Raleigh, North Carolina Execution sites in the United States 1884 establishments in North Carolina