Michelle Carlton has been appointed as the warden of NCCIW, overseeing operations at the women's prison and its medical hub.

The number of incarcerated men and women put in solitary fluctuates. About 5% of North Carolina’s 31,767 inmates were in solitary on May 20, the state said.

North Carolina is two years into a three-year project to install air conditioning across the prison system. Here’s what progress has been made.

North Carolina aims to reduce solitary confinement and adopt therapeutic housing units, prioritizing mental health and rehabilitation for those incarcerated.

More than one in four people leaving North Carolina prisons in 2024 were released to homelessness, according to a reentry housing assessment presented at the July meeting of the Joint Reentry ...

To give more seriously ill incarcerated people the opportunity to go home before they die, North Carolina lawmakers expanded the eligibility criteria of prison medical release in 2023. But data ...

As the use of solitary confinement has decreased in North Carolina's state prisons, from about 70,000 trips in 2020 to about 63,000 last year, assignments to the department's special management ...

North Carolina is two years into a three-year project to install air conditioning across the prison system. Here’s what progress has been made.