North Carolina leaders are raising concerns about staffing shortages at state prisons, as officials roll out a pilot program aimed at boosting hiring for correctional officers.
One inmate is dead and a correctional officer is hospitalized after being taken hostage at Oklahoma County Jail.
A corrections officer at Central Prison in Raleigh is on the wrong side of the bars after being charged with assault by strangulation.
A Moore County woman who works at women's prison in Raleigh and eight other people were charged in a drug ring that spans the state and distributes drugs into prisons, the Alamance County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
A Harnett County detention officer was arrested Tuesday after an investigation revealed he was selling tobacco products to inmates over the course of two months.
North Carolina's first-ever Prison Commissioner is vowing to crack down on assaults against officers and boost job training opportunities for offenders.
