• Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Contact
  • Health Job Listings
  • Newsletter
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

Donate

Read our Coronavirus Coverage Here

Tag: prison health

photo shows a couch cushion with a book on it, Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt’ by Phoebe Zerwick
Posted inFeatured

‘Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt’

by Anne Blythe May 20, 2022May 20, 2022

By Anne Blythe Darryl Hunt’s wrongful conviction and highly publicized exoneration often put him in the spotlight as he worked to reform the criminal justice system that stole 19 years of his life. As North Carolina’s most public face of the injustices in the justice system, Hunt exuded a sense of calm and dignity as […]

shows a Zoom screenshot with three large panes showing two women and a man.
Posted inPrison Health

Health Care Half Hour: Successful reentry – Health issues facing people leaving incarceration

by Editor and Elizabeth Thompson November 18, 2021November 18, 2021
Shows the NC legislative building framed by fall leaves against the backdrop of a clear blue sky.
Posted inState Health Policy

COVID funds beef up health care spending in proposed state budget, which still lacks Medicaid expansion

by Anne Blythe, Rose Hoban, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Elizabeth Thompson and Thomas Goldsmith November 17, 2021November 19, 2021
A man in a blue hat and suit is holder a yellow folder while talking to a man with a stethoscope and a man in a red shirt. They are in what appears to be a doctor's office.
Posted inPrison Health

Evidence-based reentry resources key for sicker incarcerated population, researchers say

by Elizabeth Thompson November 8, 2021November 9, 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

COVID outbreaks continue in NC jails, which are exempt from state vaccine mandate

by Elizabeth Thompson October 25, 2021October 24, 2021
shows a brick building of Central Prison behind a chain link fence topped by razor wire
Posted inPrison Health

NC prisons and jails reporting increased COVID cases amidst Delta surge

by Elizabeth Thompson August 27, 2021October 22, 2021

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 7 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Latest News

‘Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt’

‘Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt’

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022
NC Waterkeepers use catch and inform approach to clean waterways

NC Waterkeepers use catch and inform approach to clean waterways

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022
How NC families are coping with the formula shortage.

How NC families are coping with the formula shortage.

May 18, 2022May 17, 2022

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2022 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic