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NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY COMMISS. IONE;:. RS TO: Selected County Managers in the 47 Counties of the Western Division - N. C. Department of Corrections FROM: C. Ronald Aycock Executive Director DATE: May 6, 1987 SUBJECT: Transportation of Prisoners Through the cooperation of the N. C. Department of Corrections, we have been able to arrange for the operation of a consolidated jail pick-up transportation system which will begin on May 15, 1987. The system has been arranged on a interim basis with current year's . funds already allocated to the Department. Continuation beyond the ~beginning of the fiscal year will be contingent upon approval of additional funds by the General Assembly when it approves the State's expansion budget for next year. The new system will consist of a series of three transportation routes which the Department's buses will travel. County sheriffs will transport prisoners to designated pick-up points along these routes, after having scheduled the transfer of the prisoner with the Diagnostic and Classification Services Section of the Department of Corrections. Your sheriff is being contacted separately by the Department with the details of how the system will work. A copy of that communication is attached for your information. For those three counties whose jails will be used as a pick-up point (Buncombe, Mecklenburg, and Forsyth), I would like to emphasize that this transportation system is not intended to transfer custody of a prisoner from a transporting sheriff to a sheriff at the pick-up site. The transporting sheriff is to retain custody of the prisoner until the scheduled arrival of the Department of Corrections vehicle, unless he and the receiving sheriff choose to work out some other arrangement. I would also like to point out that the counties can continue to transport prisoners directly to the designated commitment facility if they wish. As has always been the case, for security reasons prisoners committed to death or life sentences, females, youthful offenders, and safekeepers will continue to be transported by local authorities directly to the appropriate State facility.