The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction has completed an after-action study and is making many changes in response to the escape of a Bertie Correctional Institution prisoner in Orange County.
On August 13, convicted murderer Ramone Alston got out of a transport vehicle at the UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus, freeing himself from leg restraints. Alston was on the run for several days until being apprehended at a motel in Kannapolis, where he was staying under a woman’s name.
While the new after-action review on the escape is entirely focused on prison system security and is strictly confidential, the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction has announced several actions that have begun or are currently underway in response to the report’s findings and recommendations.
Those actions include:
- Reducing the number of outside prison medical trips by the following means:
- Building capacity to provide more specialty medical services inside the prison system.
- Increasing use of telemedicine and e-consult to engage outside specialists.
- Implementing orange transport clothing for offenders in close custody, medium custody, and restrictive housing
- Implement annual in-service training for transportation staff
- Review all offender transport-related policies and procedures
Alston’s sister, Monique Brady, and another woman, Jacobia Crisp, have been accused with helping the prisoner’s escape.