Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional ...

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 ...

Eight years later, that worst-case scenario is looming large for corrections leaders. Staffing levels across most of North Carolina’s prisons are as bad — or worse — than they were in 2017. Prison ...