/ In 2020, when COVID-19 was sweeping the globe, the country and the state, more than 1,700 correctional officers left their jobs at North Carolina prisons. That’s a 14% increase from the number of officers who left in 2019 and the biggest jump in more than a decade, according to an analysis of Part of the reason for the increase? Prisons in North Carolina and nationwide were a Latosha Newsome, a former Neuse correctional officer Last December, Latosha Newsome left her job as a correctional officer at Neuse Correctional Institution, a nearly 800-bed minimum- and medium-security prison in Goldsboro in eastern North Carolina. She had been at Neuse less than a year. She now works at the jail in Wayne County.