The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is investing $5.5 million into the FIT Wellness program, part of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program in the UNC School of Medicine, to improve reentry services for the justice-involved population.
Published: Thursday, February 29th, 2024 @ 12:24 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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New Hampshire is sending two National Guard units to assist the worsening border crisis.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Transgender's now legally protected
Published: Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 9:34 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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More women are choosing permanent sterilization in light of the recent Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that effectively overturned Roe v. Wade.
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2022 @ 12:22 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A Madera, California, woman who received roughly $5 million from a settlement after police fatally shot her son was arrested after purchasing guns allegedly for another son and gang members.
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 9:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. government spent at least $162 million last year to incarcerate tens of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants for committing crimes that include rape, murder, kidnapping and terrorism.
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 3:49 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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According to a law enforcement source, the security team assigned to Ghislaine Maxwell will be the highest-level security available.
Published: Thursday, July 9th, 2020 @ 4:35 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s prisons will begin releasing some inmates in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Published: Saturday, April 18th, 2020 @ 2:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review:
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 @ 4:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, Attorney General, William Barr, announced the reassignment of Hugh Hurwitz, the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Published: Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 @ 2:53 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A new report from The Daily Beast shed light on a potential reason that alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was given a deal of a lifetime when he was convicted on child prostitution charges in 2008.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 2:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Roy Cooper today released his recommended budget for 2019-2021, Investments for a Determined North Carolina
Published: Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ 6:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), and in order to ensure the public safety of the American people in communities across the United States
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2019 @ 8:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Where is the best place to find good employment opportunities in the technology industry? According to a new study by the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), it’s not Silicon Valley. It’s North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2018 @ 7:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Hurricane Florence approaches North Carolina, shelters statewide are opening to take in people displaced by evacuations
Published: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 9:31 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Senate passed a $23.9 billion balanced budget adjustment with bipartisan support yesterday, Thursday, May 31, 2018
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 7:43 pm
By: Bill Cook
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The $23.9 billion state General Fund budget proposal reduces personal and corporate income taxes and increases education spending by nearly $700 million
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2018 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The minimum wage for state employees will rise to $15 an hour if the budget proposed by legislative leaders becomes law
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The spending total in his proposal comes to $24.54 billion, $500 million more than the $23.9 billion spending target recently agreed upon by the legislature.
Published: Thursday, May 17th, 2018 @ 7:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Cooper today presented his Common Ground Solutions 2018-2019 recommended budget adjustments
Published: Thursday, May 10th, 2018 @ 10:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
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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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While North Carolina leaders address a multitude of problems behind the state's prison walls, a new national poll shows growing support for criminal justice reform
Published: Friday, February 2nd, 2018 @ 7:48 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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Today, Governor Cooper met with Secretary of Public Safety Erik Hooks and state prison leaders to discuss the incident at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and action to improve security at state prisons
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 9:37 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Pat McCrory announced Monday that he plans to expand the state's Medicaid rolls in several limited areas as part of his Health and Human Services budget priorities, and will continue to seek broader expansion from the White House.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced that over the past year, inmates at state prisons and juveniles at a youth development center raised over 35,800 pounds of fresh produce and donated it to local food banks and other service organizations...
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Two recent media reports have cast a spotlight on the potential "pay to play" problem with government contractors who are also donors to political campaigns.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 1:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers spent two hours Wednesday grilling the state budget director and the public safety secretary over the extension of a prison maintenance contract by a contractor.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 1:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has received a $679,000 grant award to expand a specialty mental health probation pilot program to Brunswick, McDowell, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Orange and Durham counties. The grant comes from the...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:17 am
By: Chris Downey
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Back in June I discussed Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's disturbing suggestion that energy companies that raise doubts about the Administration's response to climate change should be prosecuted under federal racketeering law. At the time it seemed like a farfetched proposal and a clear violation of the...
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2015 @ 5:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The article below talks about how sanctuary policies have led to crimes against thousands of Americans. It was written by Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation and it is important for North Carolinians to read, because the legislature is considering House Bill 328, which would give...
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 4:17 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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