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Former North Carolina prisoners had sustained suicide risk, even three years after release, suggesting a need for more consistent support for people returning to the community.
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Advocates hope to see the North Carolina prison system grant more medical release to ease the burden of an aging prison population and to give families time with loved ones before death.
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Last fall, the North Carolina General Assembly approved $30 million to address a lack of air conditioning in the state’s prison system. But with summer approaching, none of the actual construction has begun.
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Inmates at the Alexander Correctional Facility, located about an hour west of Winston-Salem, allege they are being mistreated. Some have been on a hunger strike to protest these conditions.
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Inmates in North Carolina prisons no longer receive actual letters penned by friends and loved ones. Starting this week, they receive copies of those letters. It’s a change state prison officials say they made to help reduce the amount of drugs entering facilities.
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New research released from the N.C. Department of Public Safety finds that incarcerated individuals with mental health disorders have better outcomes when placed in a Therapeutic Diversion Unit than when they are placed in restrictive housing like solitary confinement.
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North Carolina is renaming four state prisons and a drug addiction treatment facility for probationers because their current names are connected to racism or slavery. The changes go into effect next week.
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More than 1,700 North Carolina correctional officers left their jobs in 2020 — up 14% from one year earlier, and the biggest jump in more than a decade. A number of issues contributed, but COVID-19 and its spread throughout the prison system likely was a big reason.
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There’s a bipartisan effort to better care for pregnant North Carolina prisoners and jail inmates before and after they deliver their babies.
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As COVID-19 surges through North Carolina’s prison system, families are struggling to make contact with loved ones behind bars.