Three other former employees of the prison are charged with assaulting an inmate and trying to cover it.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

North Carolina prisons are out of compliance with a court order, a judge said Friday afternoon. A month ago, Wake County Superior Court Judge Vinston Rozier Jr. ruled that conditions in state prisons ...

North Carolina corrections report dire staffing shortages, 24% officer turnover. Prisons face budget gaps, rising inmate counts, $1.4B deferred maintenance. GPS monitoring risks cuts; board seeks ...