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 ...
In a case that some would call prison justice, a former teacher in North Carolina was killed by another inmate, while serving time in prison for repeatedly raping a teenage girl.
More than one in five of the state’s prison beds, 21%, still do not have air conditioning, according to the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections, including the Johnston Correctional Facility ...