Fortunately, the department has Virginia Price who is working on a number of initiatives which will change the face of corrections. Correction Secretary Mack Jarvis recently elevated Price to the position of assistant secretary because of the many new responsibilities that she now manages. Sentencing reforms have generally been received well by a public wanting to know the real time an offender will spend in prison. That reception has been helped by the efforts of Price who directs North Carolina's State Partnership for Criminal Justice.
Price is liaison with all other federal agencies and issues affecting the department.
Recently, she was assigned to the Governor's Commission on Juvenile Crime and Justice, charged with recommending a major overhaul of the juvenile justice system in North Carolina. Before coming to DOC, Price was the executive director of the Governor's Crime Commission. She is managing a number of complicated programs to continue this department's lead in the country as being one with all the ideas. I am glad she's on our team.