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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The leader of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction warned lawmakers Thursday that the state’s correctional staffing ...

During this week's heat wave, inmates in prisons across North Carolina face sweltering heat with no air conditioning. More than one in five of the state's prison beds, 21%, still do not have air ...

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 — ...

The number of people dying by suicide inside North Carolina state prisons is raising alarms. Three men died in January, a loss of life that ties the record for suicides inside state prisons in a ...

North Carolina is making strides toward helping people get health care, jobs and other assistance after they leave prison, Gov. Josh Stein said Wednesday, part of a push to help prepare convicted ...

The Department of Adult Correction is constitutionally required to provide medical, mental and dental health care to the roughly 31,000 people in North Carolina’s 53 prisons. However, providing this ...

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 ...