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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The leader of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction warned lawmakers Thursday that the state’s correctional staffing ...

During this week's heat wave, inmates in prisons across North Carolina face sweltering heat with no air conditioning. More than one in five of the state's prison beds, 21%, still do not have air ...

April Barber Scales recalls her 18 summers spent incarcerated without air conditioning at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh — the state’s largest women’s prison — as ...

Evan Ashkin, a family physician and director of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program, has long been concerned about people who are returning to the community from prison — ...

The Department of Adult Correction is constitutionally required to provide medical, mental and dental health care to the roughly 31,000 people in North Carolina’s 53 prisons. However, providing this ...

More than one in five of the state’s prison beds, 21%, still do not have air conditioning, according to the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections, including the Johnston Correctional Facility ...