The legislature’s budget stalemate has hit North Carolina’s prison system hard, making it difficult to pay bills and keep enough staff to safely operate its 55 facilities. Starting pay for ...

Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and another in an attack at Bertie Correctional Institution. It ...

North Carolina’s prison system is facing a crisis, from severe staffing shortages and budget pressures to the growing needs ...

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’s prison system is stretched thin, and one of its former inmates says he has a bold way to ease the pressure.

A former director of North Carolina's prison system told lawmakers Monday that major changes are needed to improve safety in state prisons. Two years ago, an inmate killed a corrections officer at ...

A man convicted of shooting and killing his wife more than 15 years ago has died at Nash Correctional Institution in an apparent suicide. Myron Britt, 71, of Cary, was found unresponsive in his cell ...

With the recent purchase of the former Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro, Kerwin Pittman is laying claim to an unusual title — he says he’s the first formerly incarcerated person in the U.S. to ...