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N.C. Department of Public Safety: State Temporarily Reconfigures Buncombe Prisons
August 21, 2021
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 . . .

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