North Carolina's prison system is taking an array of steps to increase safety and security following the deaths of five corrections workers last year, Secretary of Public Safety Erik Hooks and his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional ...

When a group of civil rights organizations wrote the U.S. Department of Justice last week to request a federal investigation of North Carolina's prison system, their language was blunt. In recounting ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. North Carolina corrections report dire staffing shortages, 24% officer turnover. Prisons face budget gaps, rising inmate counts, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contract nurse Kathy Scott tends to a prisoner Thursday, April 16, 2015 at North Carolina Central Prison Regional Medical Center ...

Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and another in an attack at Bertie Correctional Institution. It ...

ACLU and Emancipate NC sue North Carolina over ban on prison gender care. Lawsuit argues the funding ban violates the Eighth Amendment duty to provide care. Challenge targets law section barring state ...