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beyond a fence two fences, one topped with razor wire, about a dozen men play on a bleak basketball court. Many people with mental illness end up in the prison system
Posted inInfectious Disease

NC prison agency changes policy and COVID death count following NC Health News-VICE investigation of underreporting

by Hannah Critchfield March 5, 2021March 6, 2021
Sheriff removes leg cuffs from a psychiatric patient after transporting the man from one hospital to another
Posted inMental Health

More NC psych patients are ending up handcuffed in a police car. Why?

by Taylor Knopf December 14, 2020March 28, 2022
photo shows three older people with masks standing and talking outside a white tent where someone else sits ready to help with voting
Posted inAging

How do you vote if you live in a nursing home? It can be complicated.

by Rose Hoban October 6, 2020October 5, 2020
Door to a unit inside a jail. Jail suicides and overdoses are on the rise across the state. The counties may not have enough resources to fight COVID-19.
Posted inPrison Health

COVID outbreak worsens at Pitt County Jail

by Hannah Critchfield September 11, 2020September 12, 2020
Posted inPrison Health

Over 120 COVID-19 cases at North Carolina’s only immigration detention facility

by Hannah Critchfield September 9, 2020January 29, 2021
We see a hand holding a cardboard sign that says, "#Free Them All" sticking out the passenger window of a compact white car passing the Durham County Detention Facility. The car is part of a caravan of protestors calling for the release of inmates who are unable to pay bail during the pandemic. It's Father's Day, 2020.
Posted inPrison Health

Even as NC’s COVID numbers stabilize, jail outbreaks spike

by Hannah Critchfield August 11, 2020January 29, 2021

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