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Although the United States makes up just five percent of the global population, America holds 25 percent of the world's prison population. Five decades…
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Although the United States makes up just five percent of the global population, America holds 25 percent of the world's prison population. Five decades…
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Advocates are requesting the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the way North Carolina uses solitary confinement in prisons.A letter from six…
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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics there are approximately 2.3 million people in prisons or local jails in the United States. And many of those…
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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics there are approximately 2.3 million people in prisons or local jails in the United States. And many of those…
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Across the country, more than a million black men are “missing” from everyday life, according to a recent New York Times article. There are more than…
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Last year Michael Anthony Kerr was found unresponsive after spending 35 days in a solitary confinement cell in North Carolina. He subsequently died.…
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Corrections officers from North Carolina prisons could carry concealed firearms while off duty without a permit under a legislative proposal that seeks to…
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An atheist group filed a federal lawsuit to compel the North Carolina Department of Corrections to make space available for group studies by atheists in…
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About 12 percent of the inmates in North Carolina's prisons are mentally ill, state prisons administrators told lawmakers at a hearing this…