WHITEVILLE, N.C. (WECT) - Columbus Correctional Institution is one of five N.C. Department of Adult Correction facilities that have received full accreditation as one of the nation’s best-operated ...

“On September 28, 2019, Scott Whitmeyer, an inmate at Columbus Correctional Institution was stabbed fourteen times by inmate David Fields,” a news release from the District Attorney’s Office states.

An inmate at Columbus Correctional Institution in Whiteville was stabbed to death late Saturday. It was the second fatal attack on an inmate at the medium-custody facility in less than a year.