A North Carolina man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday after officials say he tried to board a flight overseas to join the Islamic State Group last year. Authorities arrested Alexander Justin ...

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — The search continues in North Carolina for a man accused of escaping a detention center through the building’s ventilation system. Sunday afternoon, John Matthew ...

CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — An inmate with the Craven County Detention Center reportedly escaped from his assigned cell on Sunday afternoon. A search showed that the inmate, John Matthew Nigh ...

An inmate escaped from a North Carolina jail through a ventilation system while his ... Nigh, who records show served time in prison for burglary in Craven County, was arrested in nearby Onslow County ...

A "dangerous" inmate who is on the run Wednesday after fleeing a North Carolina jail with the help of his cellmates has a history of trying to evade law enforcement, including one incident in which he ...

New York's state prison system is under scrutiny after guards fatally beat an inmate last month. North Country Public ... regular inspections of all federal prisons. Welch says this sheds light ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate who ... State prison officials, who have said South Carolina's procedures for lethal injection are similar to the federal government, did not comment ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and ...