An investigation is ongoing after a detainee at a Western North Carolina jail died, Wednesday. Officials in Buncombe County say Christopher Morrow was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly tampering ...

The Buncombe County Sheriff's Office says it has notified the State Bureau of Investigation after a jail inmate died hours after he was taken into custody.

He was pronounced dead just before 3 p.m. Sept. 17, according to the sheriff's office. The cause of death will be determined ...

After Byrd was killed, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies came together to solve the murder of one of their ...

A former deputy with the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office who worked there for nearly 11 years is scheduled for sentencing Oct. 1 for production of child pornography. Johnathan Andrew Edwards was ...

Two North Carolina constitutional amendments approved in 2018 — including a voter ID mandate — are enforceable, a trial court panel ruled.

Official said an analysis of the man’s laptop and iPhone reportedly revealed more than 1,500 videos and 7,000 images ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has taken an unusual approach with Republicans in his first eight months leading the highly ...

FRESH MILK SHOULD THE NEED ARISE. AN INMATE IS DEAD IN THE PRISON, IS ON EXTENDED LOCKDOWN AT NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN CLAYTON. OFFICIALS TELL US THERE WAS A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Inmates at a French high-security prison for dangerous drug traffickers started a hunger strike this week to protest against their detention conditions, a Justice Ministry ...

Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage ...

Larry Robert Veeder speaks of prison life, of the suffocating pain he felt about his crimes and the hurt he felt for his ...