Person Correctional Center Closed
Person Correctional Center is not a current North Carolina prison. NCDAC's Dan River Prison Work Farm page explains that the former Person building is now used as the Roxboro Satellite Training Center. Dan River Prison Work Farm itself is in Caswell County, not at the Roxboro training site.
This distinction matters whenever an old record, address, or facility name appears in a search. The historic name can identify where an earlier incarceration occurred. It cannot establish that anyone remains confined there today. The current training use is an administrative and staff function, not an inmate locator, release office, visitation destination, or county detention operation.
Find Former Person Releases
Historical release research begins with the NCDAC Offender Public Information search. Select Inactive when the person is believed to have completed a state sentence, or All if the status is uncertain. Search by offender number when known. A name search should be narrowed with birth date, age, race, gender, middle initial, or sentence information.
The statewide system follows the offender rather than one prison building. It can retain state correctional history even after a facility closes or the person moves among institutions. Open the detail and look for the correct admission and release episode, sentence history, and any supervision that followed prison.
- Choose Inactive or All, based on the expected state status.
- Enter the offender number or tightly matched identity details.
- Open the result and compare the conviction and sentence episode.
- Read the accomplished release date, not an earlier projected date.
- Request NCDAC records if the historic detail is incomplete or ambiguous.
A name-only result is not enough. More than one person can share a name, and one person can have several state admissions. Connect the date to the relevant case before describing the record.
Historic Release Record Meaning
A state correctional record can show admission, sentence, prison release, and later community supervision. Those events should be read as a timeline. A person may have left the former prison through transfer to another NCDAC institution long before the state sentence ended. The later statewide release date is the event that records departure from prison custody.
| Historic entry | What it can mean |
|---|---|
| Facility assignment | Where NCDAC housed the person during part of a sentence. |
| Transfer | Movement within or outside the state system, not community release. |
| Prison release date | End of the identified state confinement episode. |
| Active supervision | Community-corrections status after or instead of prison. |
| Inactive status | Historical or completed NCDAC relationship, subject to detail review. |
A prison release can begin post-release supervision or older-law parole. That physical exit is not always the sentence-discharge date. Check supervision history and offense date. Structured Sentencing generally governs offenses on or after October 1, 1994, while older eligible cases may involve parole.
Person Prison History Search
NCDAC states that its public information covers current prisoners, probationers, parolees, and historical correctional information back to 1972. The system expressly excludes county jail information. A former Person Correctional Center inmate belongs within that statewide history if the relevant event falls within the available records.
The main search form includes All, Active Inmate, Active Probationer-Parolee, and Inactive choices. It also provides name, offender number, sex, race, ethnic group, birth date, birth-year tolerance, and age fields. Sounds-like searching can find spelling variants, but it should be treated as discovery rather than identity proof.
- Offender number
- The strongest public search key when it is known and correctly matched.
- Admission
- Entry into an NCDAC correctional episode.
- Projected release
- A changeable calculation for a current sentence, not proof of an exit.
- Accomplished release
- The recorded end of a state prison custody episode.
Note: A closed prison name can remain in historical data without implying that the site still confines anyone.
Request Former Prison Records
When the online history is too short, use the NCDAC public-records page. Identify the person by full name, offender number, date of birth if known, approximate admission and release years, and the former facility name. Ask for specific public facts such as sentence, admission date, transfer dates if public, prison release date and type, supervision start and termination dates, and inactive or discharged status.
NCDAC says basic conviction, sentence length, time served, admission, and release dates are generally public for people in its prison or Community Supervision systems. Most internal prison material remains confidential. A narrow request for named fields is more useful than asking for every file tied to the former institution.
Closed state prison site in Roxboro
Current use: Roxboro Satellite Training Center
Historical custodian: North Carolina Department of Adult Correction
Records route: NCDAC public records
The training center should not be contacted as if it were a records room for old inmates. NCDAC is the continuing custodian for statewide offender history. If a record concerns a later Person County Detention Center stay, request that separate episode from the Sheriff's Office.
Former Prison Versus County Jail
Person County Detention Center is the county's confirmed operating adult detention facility. It sits within the Sheriff's Office and handles local pretrial and sentenced custody. Former Person Correctional Center was a state institution. The two names describe different operators, record systems, custody purposes, and release evidence.
| Question | Former state prison | Current county jail |
|---|---|---|
| Operator | NCDAC historically | Person County Sheriff's Office |
| Current custody | None at closed training site | Local adult detention |
| Release source | NCDAC offender history | Sheriff entry-and-release record |
| Search scope | State sentence and supervision | One local booking episode |
The Person County Detention Center release path begins with the jail telephone and NextRequest. The former prison path begins with NCDAC. Combining the two can turn a past state assignment into a false claim about a present local booking.
Roxboro Training Site History
The current use of the old building is the distinctive local fact. NCDAC associates it with Dan River Prison Work Farm as the Roxboro Satellite Training Center, but locates Dan River's prison in Caswell County. “Satellite” describes the training relationship, not an extension of inmate custody into Person County.
No current state prison was found in Person County. Anyone sentenced from a Person County court into state custody is searched statewide, regardless of conviction county, prison location, later release county, or community-supervision office. The facility map therefore lists this closed site to correct a likely search mistake, not to suggest a new place to look for current inmates.
Records can outlast buildings and names. Treat the historic facility as one location in a larger state timeline. Confirm the person, then read transfer, release, and supervision entries from the continuing state custodian.
Verify Former Prison Identity
Historic research can surface several people with similar names and more than one incarceration for the same person. Compare offender number, full name, birth information, conviction county, offense, admission date, and sentence before selecting a Person Correctional Center episode. The facility name alone is not enough because a record may list an assignment or transfer rather than the place of final release.
Preserve the source label beside every date. A judgment, NCDAC admission, institutional transfer, prison release, and supervision discharge are separate events. If public detail is unclear, request specific admission and transfer fields from NCDAC. Do not infer release from the date the prison closed or from the building's later training use.
Former Prison Record Follow-Up
A historical result should preserve both the old institution name and the statewide offender number. If NCDAC later updates its interface or facility labels, those identifiers keep the research tied to the right person and custody episode. Cite the state record as historical and describe the Roxboro property as a training site only in current-tense references. No current custody claim should be drawn from an archived address.