NC Prisons

Lack of access to mental health care inside North Carolina's prisons has an increasing number of advocates worried about a looming crisis.

Framing MAT in jails as an Americans with Disabilities Act issue is prompting a shift in how the treatment is managed with jails now more willing to sort out the logistics.

Some prison residents are being vaccinated, and there is a plan in place in case of an outbreak, an official says.

About 98 percent of people incarcerated in North Carolina return home, including those convicted of sex crimes, but placement on the public sex offender registry is a life sentence.

Defense lawyer John Phillips says Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was taken from a federal medical center in Fort Worth, Texas, to a federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina, last week.

The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission reviewed the two cases over nine years.

In North Carolina, jailers are required to observe each inmate “at least twice an hour on an irregular basis, with no more than 40 minutes between rounds,” according to state regulations. That standard was repeatedly violated in the hours leading up to the two deaths, according to investigators with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.

North Carolina has no plans to exclude prisoners when drawing legislative voting districts, but local jurisdictions are grappling with how to handle prisoners as they redistrict.

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.

North Carolina civil right rights groups struck a deal on Thursday with Gov. Roy Cooper's administration to allow for the early release of 3,500 inmates…