LILLINGTON – Carlton Joyner is the new superintendent at Harnett Correctional Institution.The facility houses 850 medium-custody male inmates, and it employs 385 officers and administrative staff members. It offers a wide range of educational and vocational programs for inmates. It is home to the state’s only in-prison treatment program for sex offenders and a newly opened school that teaches inmates to become barbers. Correction Enterprises operates a plant at Harnett CI to process meat and frozen foods for the state’s prisons.
Joyner, a 26-year Department of Correction veteran, began his career as a correctional officer at Central Prison. He worked his way through the ranks in correctional programs, most recently coordinating transition and re-entry efforts for the Division of Prisons.
