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NC prisons face ‘dire’ staffing crisis

By Rachel Crumpler Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and another in an attack at Bertie Correctional Institution.  It was the deadliest year for prison staff in state history. Investigations that followed pointed to understaffing as a central factor. At […]

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