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NC Department of Adult Corrections rejects calls for inmate early release due to Hurricane Helene
NCDAC responds to concerns from human rights groups following Helene.
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NC inmate can proceed with lawsuit challenging ‘retaliatory’ prison transfer
A federal Appeals Court will allow a prison inmate in North Carolina to move forward with a lawsuit challenging his transfer. The inmate claims prison officials retaliated against him because he complained about his treatment behind bars.
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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...
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N.C. mulls changes as poll shows strong public support for prison reform
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. At least 75 percent of Americans think prisons need a makeover, show data from the Justice Action Network. Support crosses party lines, with 68 percent of Republicans and 80 percent...
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Addressing the ‘most dangerous and violent year in N.C. corrections history’
The N.C. Department of Public Safety must reform staffing and safety measures in light of spiking prison violence across the state, experts say. The department should hire new executives for adult and juvenile corrections, increase salaries, and recruit new prison staffers, among other things, said Duke University researchers who presented a report to the N.C....
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Audit: Physician at prisons billed for thousands of hours not worked
A new audit shows that a physician contracted by the state Department of Public Safety to provide services to five prisons over-billed taxpayers by more than half a million dollars between 2011 and 2014. The report, by State Auditor Beth Wood’s office, recommends that DPS seek reimbursement from the physician and that the department also should...
