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 ...

North Carolina's prison system is taking an array of steps to increase safety and security following the deaths of five corrections workers last year, Secretary of Public Safety Erik Hooks and his ...

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 — ...