Years of vacancies, low pay and high turnover have eroded staffing levels, disrupting operations and raising safety concerns.

The details of the settlement are the latest talking points in a Senate race that's heating up before primaries are decided.

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one knows how Otto Wood made his final escape from a North Carolina prison 95 years ago, historians said. Screengrab from the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources website Mystery ...

Over a fourth of North Carolinians released from prison are homeless. Kerwin Pittman hopes buying a prison can change that.

Former Gov. Roy Cooper says he was forced to release people from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic. He spoke to reporters ...