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 ...

No one ever said our state prisons would or should be cushy places to live and work. But neither should they be decrepit dumps in which an underpaid and understaffed workforce struggles to cope with ...

After signing a controversial tough-on-crime bill into law, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein says it does not go far enough ...

Nine human rights organizations are demanding that the state prison system release 1,900 inmates to alleviate overcrowding caused by the closure of four prisons impacted by Hurricane Helene in Western ...

More than one in four people leaving North Carolina prisons in 2024 were released to homelessness, according to a reentry housing assessment presented at the July meeting of the Joint Reentry Council.

EDITOR’S NOTE: At the request of Durham County, Special Superior Court Judge Hoyt G. Tessener on Oct. 9 dismissed the lawsuit ...

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 ...

We will all be safer if we choose proactive, rather than reactive, solutions to address mental health and crime. Now is the ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Family members of Dontae Sharpe and Kalvan Michael Smith were at the St. Paul AME Church in downtown Raleigh Thursday as the North Carolina NAACP announced campaigns to demand their ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (WRAL) — Raleigh police charged a paralegal in Raleigh with possession and trafficking of drugs. Authorities charged Katelin Rey on Sunday. Law enforcement is investigating Rey ...

The GEO Group is in talks with Trump officials about reopening prisons, including the Rivers Correctional Institute in Hertford County. It has already landed contracts to reopen a private prison in ...