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

A former director of North Carolina's prison system told lawmakers Monday that major changes are needed to improve safety in state prisons. Two years ago, an inmate killed a corrections officer at ...

Less than three weeks after two corrections officers were killed, state Secretary of Public Safety Erik Hooks pledged Monday to improve security for people working in North Carolina prisons. "I am ...

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 — ...