North Carolina has launched a program for people with severe mental illnesses who have been released from jail or prison that ...

April Barber Scales recalls her 18 summers spent incarcerated without air conditioning at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh — the state’s largest women’s prison — as ...

"This is about hope and healing. It's about the person. It's not about a checklist," said Kelly Crosbie, Director of Mental Health Services with the NCDHHS. Jubilee Home's co-founder said they hope it ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

The third edition of The Mabel Bassett Balance includes a story about what it’s like to be in prison as a teenager, an ...