The killings of Iryna Zarutska and Zoe Welsh have raised questions about North Carolina's criminal justice system. The men charged in their deaths have lengthy criminal histories and mental illnesses.

North Carolina lawmakers held a meeting in Raleigh on Wednesday for the House Select Committee on Government Efficiency to learn more about the North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Parole ...

One of four employees accused of assaulting an inmate and trying to cover up the attack at the federal prison complex in ...

The killings of Iryna Zarutska and Zoe Welsh have raised questions about North Carolina's criminal justice system. The men charged in their deaths have lengthy criminal histories and mental illnesses.

North Carolina first lady Anna Stein paid a visit to the Western Correctional Center for Women in Black Mountain to observe the Driver License Restoration Progr ...

Four people have been sentenced to over 14 years combined in federal prison for a $12.7 million Medicaid fraud scheme that paid over $1 million in kickbacks to patients with substance use disorders, ...

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 ...

North Carolina’s top lawmakers are moving from the sidelines to the front row in a high-stakes fight over gender-transition care for people in state prisons, asking a federal judge to let them join a ...

A man who spent all of his 20s behind bars has bought a decommissioned prison in North Carolina, with plans to turn it into a center that provides jobs and housing to formerly incarcerated people.

A Mexican national with multiple illegal reentry convictions was sentenced yesterday to 135 months in federal prison for trafficking more than 33 kilograms of cocaine in the Charlotte area.

Kerwin Pittman becomes the first formerly incarcerated Black man to buy a U.S. prison, transforming a site of confinement into a reentry campus.