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 ...

A nonprofit broke ground on Thursday in Graham for North Carolina's first tiny home community for formerly incarcerated women. Benevolence Farm provides women with transitional housing and job ...

Former Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro, Kerwin Pittman says he’s the first formerly incarcerated person in the U.S. to ...

Benevolence Farm in southern Alamance County has begun construction of what will be the first tiny-home community in North Carolina for formerly incarcerated women. The farm said in a press release ...

Protesters gathered outside the state’s largest prison for women Wednesday night and held a baby shower for the pregnant inmates inside, tying balloons to the gate and cheering. Inmates at N.C.

Evan Ashkin, a family physician and director of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program, has long been concerned about people who are returning to the community from prison — ...

Nine human rights organizations are demanding that the state prison system release 1,900 inmates to alleviate overcrowding caused by the closure of four prisons impacted by Hurricane Helene in Western ...