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Despite some progress, the LGBTQ community also endured a year of vicious attacks from some of the state’s most prominent GOP elected officials.
It is tricky to get public records on jail deaths, but attempted suicides and drug overdoses that do not end in death are almost impossible to track.
The State Will Release 3,500 Prisoners Under a Settlement With Civil Rights Groups This story first published online at NC Policy Watch. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety will release 3,500 people early from prison after settling a lawsuit which argued that their constitutional rights were violated by the treatment they have received during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a press release from the ACLU of North Carolina. The press release described the relief as among âthe largest prison releases in the country achieved via COVID-19 litigation efforts.â The...
N.C. Claims Fewer Prisoners Died of COVID Than Documents Show In the final hours of August 2, Billy Bingham lay alone in his cell, silent except for the sounds of his short, shallow breaths. Thirty-four minutes after midnight, he was dead. Paramedics arrived at the Albemarle Correctional Institute, a state prison in central North Carolina, too late to take him to the hospital, and instead called the time of death and left. A prison official called his uncle, who would wake up to a voicemail sharing the news. Binghamâs story is not unique. A North Carolina Health News investigation in pa...
Protesters Decry Conditions and Treatment at Durham's 'COVID Motel' Durham's COVID hotel, Quality Inn, direct action. Photos by Jade Wilson. Reginald Cunningham called his sister, Teresa Hicks, late Wednesday afternoon after he was charged with violating the conditions of his parole while staying at the Quality Inn on Hillsborough Road in Durham. Hicks, who was attending a protest in the Cracker Barrel parking lot on the motelâs south side, puts her brother on speakerphone. Cunningham spoke from the Guilford County jail, where he is in custody. âThey said I was outside and it...