[2] The facility which eventually became the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women was originally established as a road camp for male inmates who were assigned to work on highway projects.

[3] Little information exists on the Farm Colony, but there are biennial reports from the institution dating up to the year 1946.

[4] Some sources associate the institution with the forced sterilization of inmates during the eugenics movement in the United States.

The first improvement to the prison infrastructure was a $1 million construction project which expanded NCCIW facilities to include four cottage style dormitories, an auditorium, a segregation unit, a sewing plant, a cannery, laundry, kitchen a dining hall, and an administration building in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Within the next seven years, the North Carolina General Assembly approved approximately $25 million in additional funding for renovations and infrastructure improvements to the facility including repair or replacement of deteriorated buildings and the addition of support services necessitated by inmate population growth including the construction of six new dormitories, 48-cell maximum security housing unit, inmate mental health facility, prison operations building and gatehouse, security perimeter fence, and lighting.