Prison officials are trying to reduce the risk of overdose by providing medications for opioid use disorder before release.

HICKORY, N.C. (WTVD) -- After months of worrying, waiting and unanswered questions, Samantha Hensley's biggest fear became a reality when her husband tested positive for COVID-19 inside a North ...

April Barber Scales recalls her 18 summers spent incarcerated without air conditioning at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh — the state’s largest women’s prison — as ...

Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January. He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

No one knows how Otto Wood made his final escape from a North Carolina prison 95 years ago, historians said. Screengrab from the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources website Mystery ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WBTW) — A Fayetteville man whose drug empire reached into multiple North Carolina counties is headed to prison for 40 years, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Courtney Linwood “Blaze” ...