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State agrees to penalty for shoddy drug dispensing records at Raleigh prisons

The state has agreed to pay a $190,000 penalty to the federal government for lax record-keeping on how drugs are dispensed at Central Prison and the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women, officials said Wednesday.

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Matthew Burns
, WRAL.com senior producer/politcs editor
RALEIGH, N.C. — The state has agreed to pay a $190,000 penalty to the federal government for lax record-keeping on how drugs are dispensed at Central Prison and the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women, officials said Wednesday.

The Department of Public Safety agreed to the penalty rather than contest a possible fine of up to $880,000 from the Drug Enforcement Administration, officials said.

Officials said the DEA found that medical staff at the two Raleigh prisons failed to properly document the dispensing and disposal of controlled substances at least 88 times between September 2014 and October 2016.

No drugs were found to have been diverted illegally, officials said, but the shoddy record-keeping would have made such diversions much easier.

DPS changed policies and procedures, improved training and developed better monitoring, reporting and compliance processes after the investigations, officials said.

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