Saturday - July 4, 2026

Tipoffs for Asheville, North Carolina (State)

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N.C. Department of Public Safety: State Temporarily Reconfigures Buncombe Prisons
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 21 -- The North Carolina Department of Public Safety issued the following news release: A staffing shortage at two Asheville-area prisons has led to a temporary reconfiguring of staff and offenders. Craggy Correctional Center and Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women both have significant staff vacancies. To create safer staff-to-offender ratios, the state prisons system this week temporarily closed one unit at Swannanoa and reassigned 25 correctional staff from  more