Problems at N.C. prisons have festered for years

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.   It was a three-hour trip. He died along the way. Kerr’s death was the culmination of a gruesome ordeal, lawyers from the...