On Sept. 12, 2022, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety paid $1.4 million to the estate of Geoffrey Howe, a maintenance mechanic at Pasquotank Correctional Institution who was killed by four inmates during an attempted prison break. Howe’s ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — A human rights group is suing the North Carolina Department of Public Safety alleging its staff censors magazines inmates receive by mail, especially those with articles about prison misconduct. Human Rights Defense Center in Florida filed the ...
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Read More »CHARLOTTE (AP) — A longtime North Carolina state lawmaker should not receive active prison time for his guilty plea to charges involving his scheme to siphon campaign dollars to his ailing family farm, attorneys recommended to a federal judge this ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina civil rights groups struck a deal on Thursday with Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration to allow for the early release of 3,500 inmates in state custody over the next six months. If the state abides by ...
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Read More »A federal judge says it’s time for a former county manager in North Carolina to start her seven-year prison sentence on fraud, bribery and other corruption charges. Multiple media organizations report that U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad on Friday denied ...
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Read More »North Carolina taxpayers are paying three former inmates at one of the state’s most dangerous prisons $62,500 to settle lawsuits claiming the former warden and supervisors wouldn’t clamp down on murderous gangs who terrorized them. They were among five inmates ...
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A federal prisoner’s sentence must be reconsidered, again, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, this time giving weight to a state court’s order for concurrent sentences. This is the second time the 4th Circuit has heard the ...
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Read More »The North Carolina Department of Public Safety is looking into what it says was coordinated acts of disobedience by prisoners at a correctional center. Department spokesman Jerry Higgins tells The Asheville Citizen-Times that Craggy Correctional Center inmates on Saturday set ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina prison officials are agreeing to pay a $190,000 penalty for failing to keep track of prescription drugs that had the potential of being diverted to inmates. Federal prosecutors said July 11 that the dozens of lapses occurred ...
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Read More »MURPHY (AP) Two North Carolina jail officers have been fired following an investigation into allegations of assault. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that officers Wesley Gage Killian and Josh Gunter were fired over what was ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
