North Carolina’s prison system on Tuesday dropped its ban on a book about mass incarceration and will review other prohibited books after an objection from the state’s American Civil Liberties Union ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina prisons were already a more dangerous place to work before four employees at an understaffed prison were killed during a failed breakout attempt last month. State ...

HICKORY, N.C. (WTVD) -- After months of worrying, waiting and unanswered questions, Samantha Hensley's biggest fear became a reality when her husband tested positive for COVID-19 inside a North ...

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.

Incarcerated people with hearing disabilities in North Carolina will have improved access to communication. The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday that it secured an agreement with the N.C.

Note: The above video is from 2017, when the first of four inmates convicted in the deaths of four Pasquotank Correctional Institution employees detailed his past, the murders of the four employees ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WBTV) - Several new laws will take effect, and others will change, in North Carolina at the start of 2026.

A North Carolina man will spend the next two decades in federal prison for his role in a multi-state drug trafficking and ...