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Filling staff vacancies, meeting demand for rehabilitative resources and updating solitary confinement practices are among the focuses of NC prison system.

Expanded prison medical release eligibility provides opportunity for more sick, aging incarcerated people to go home before they die

Under current sentencing laws, Bobby Norfleet would have been released from prison decades ago. Instead, he’s spent most of his life behind bars. There are hundreds of people in prison just like him.

Since Jan. 1, nine inmates have ended their lives in the prisons, an average of one a month. In only one of the past 30 years have NC prisoners killed

Since Jan. 1, nine inmates have ended their lives in the prisons, an average of one a month. In only one of the past 30 years have NC prisoners killed