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Advocacy groups push for early release of prison inmates due to Helene
he North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections says that many of their claims are "misinformed or grossly exaggerated."
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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...
Opinion
A Consensus on Criminal Justice
Not every program that cites public safety as its goal is an effective use of taxpayer dollars.
