North Carolina has created a new leadership position to oversee the state's troubled prison system.
Todd Ishee will become the state's first Commissioner of Prisons, effective June 24th.
A new report from a non-partisan advocacy group is comparing North Carolina's correctional system to others across the country.
Some North Carolina state employees are suing because they believe supervisors have been improperly writing discipline reports to prevent them from getting pay raises.
A North Carolina newspaper has examined jail deaths across the state and found a disturbing trend– many of them died while left unsupervised longer than they should have been.
Prisoners in North Carolina will be spending less time in solitary confinement.
