A now-former Alamance County detention officer is facing charges for allegedly having sex with an inmate and supplying him ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and First Lady Anna Stein unveiled a pilot program focused on helping inmates with severe mental health ...

A Raleigh man convicted as a teenager of murdering his father died Tuesday morning following a fight in prison, the North ...

In September 2024, Detention Center investigators said they were alerted that contraband and narcotics were inside the prison.

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 ...

No one knows how Otto Wood made his final escape from a North Carolina prison 95 years ago, historians said. Screengrab from the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources website Mystery ...

North Carolina has launched a program for people with severe mental illnesses who have been released from jail or prison that ...

A former middle school teacher serving time for statutory rape was found dead in his prison bunk on October 5, and authorities have since charged a fellow inmate, a convicted murderer, with his death.