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The N.C. prison system, comprising 55 facilities and employing roughly 16,000 staff, is one of the largest agencies in the state. That might surprise some, as prisons, from the real estate they occupy, to the critical role they play in governance, are not foremost in our minds when it comes to polic
Published: Monday, November 1st, 2021 @ 5:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The nation’s federal prison system is in hot water again, this time for security failures that allow inmates to escape undetected.
Published: Friday, June 18th, 2021 @ 11:14 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed May 2-8 as Correctional Officers and Correctional Employees Week in North Carolina, in recognition of the essential public service provided by employees in the state’s prison system.
Published: Wednesday, May 5th, 2021 @ 1:18 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed May 4-10 as Correctional Officers and Correctional Employees Week in North Carolina, to recognize the important public service provided by employees in the state’s prison system.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 @ 11:22 am
By: Governor's Office
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A Durham woman is going to federal prison for bilking the Medicaid system out of more than $900,000, U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon announced on Friday
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 @ 3:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Monday evening, President Trump met with North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, the tyrannical overlord of a slave state with 25 million prisoners and a gulag system containing hundreds of thousands of human beings, a radical threat to world peace who has tested nuclear weapons and long-range missile
Published: Friday, June 15th, 2018 @ 11:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Michael Kerr, starving, incoherent, and dehydrated, was loaded into a van March 12, 2014, at Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville. The 53-year-old inmate was bound for a hospital at Central Prison in Raleigh
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2018 @ 9:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine a man serving a 20-year prison sentence. He's told when to eat and what to wear, and he lacks the option of opening a door. He has little to no independence or free will
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While 2017 was a good and productive year for many public and private institutions in North Carolina, it was a tragic year for our prison system
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 12:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Who says Republicans and Democrats can't do good things together?
Published: Friday, December 1st, 2017 @ 4:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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These are estimated daily expense numbers for the new 176 bed jail as based on an average 140 inmate population, i.e., 110 local inmates plus 30 transfers from state prison system (Al Klemm,: My Turn WDN, March 15, 2014).
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Incarcerated prisoners are not entitled to unemployment benefits because they obviously do not meet the condition of being able, available, and actively looking for work.
Published: Monday, September 23rd, 2013 @ 8:45 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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